English 250
Research Seminar: Milton and the English Civil War
| Section | Semester | Instructor | Time | Location | Course Areas |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | Spring 2018 | Kahn, Victoria
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W 3-6 | Note new location: 4125A Dwinelle | Renaissance and Early Modern Graduate Courses |
Description
An introduction to the literature of the English civil war and following decades, focusing on the work of John Milton, but including the work of Henry Parker, Thomas Hobbes, Andrew Marvell, Margaret Cavendish, Katherine Phillips, Lucy Hutchinson, and Anne Halkett. We will also address the explosion of pamphlet literature during the English civil war, the controversy over gender roles, the texts surrounding the regicide of Charles I, and the political, religious, and sexual radicalism of dissenting literary culture.
This course satisfies the Group 3 (Seventeenth through Eighteenth Century) requirement.
Other Recent Sections of This Course
Spring, 2019
| Course & Section | Course Name | Course Areas |
| 250/1 | Research Seminar: Philosophical Idealizations of Art and Modernist Practices |
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Fall, 2018
| Course & Section | Course Name | Course Areas |
| 250/3 | Research Seminar: Textual Communities and the Modern |
Picciotto, Joanna M
|
| 250/4 | Research Seminar: Evolution and Literary Form, 1800-1900 |
Duncan, Ian
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Spring, 2018
| Course & Section | Course Name | Course Areas |
| 250/2 | Research Seminar: Ways of Knowing, Ways of Representing in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction |
Sorensen, Janet
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| 250/4 | Research Seminar: The Rhetoric of Technique |
Lavery, Grace
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| 250/5 |
Research Seminar: |
Best, Stephen M.
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Fall, 2017
| Course & Section | Course Name | Course Areas |
| 250/1 | Research Seminar: Victorian Cultural Studies |
Puckett, Kent
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| 250/2 | Research Seminar: How to Write a Book |
Kahn, Victoria
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| 250/3 | Research Seminar: Paranoid States: Empire and the Rise of the Surveillance State |
Saha, Poulomi
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| 250/4 | Research Seminar: Gender, Sexuality, Modernism |
Abel, Elizabeth
|
Spring, 2017
Fall, 2016
| Course & Section | Course Name | Course Areas |
| 250/1 | Research Seminar: Representing Non-Human Life in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Britain |
Picciotto, Joanna M
|
| 250/2 | Research Seminar: Ethnic Modernisms |
Lee, Steven S.
|
| 250/3 | Research Seminar: Literature and the Brain |
Gang, Joshua
|
Spring, 2016
| Course & Section | Course Name | Course Areas |
| 250/1 | Research Seminar: Capitalist Crisis and Literature |
Gonzalez, Marcial
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| 250/2 | Research Seminar: The Limits of Historicism |
Best, Stephen M.
|
| 250/3 | Research Seminar: How It Strikes a Contemporary: Reading the Novel in the 21st Century |
Snyder, Katherine
Snyder, Katie |
| 250/4 | Research Seminar: Modernism's Metaphysics |
Blanton, C. D.
|
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