English 250

Research Seminar: Milton and the English Civil War

Section	Semester	Instructor	Time	Location	Course Areas
3	Spring 2018	Kahn, Victoria	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	Altieri, Charles F.

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

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
250/4	Research Seminar: The Rhetoric of Technique	Lavery, Grace
250/5	Research Seminar: ~~Black~~ Abstraction	Best, Stephen M.

Fall, 2017

Course & Section	Course Name	Course Areas
250/1	Research Seminar: Victorian Cultural Studies	Puckett, Kent
250/2	Research Seminar: How to Write a Book	Kahn, Victoria
250/3	Research Seminar: Paranoid States: Empire and the Rise of the Surveillance State	Saha, Poulomi
250/4	Research Seminar: Gender, Sexuality, Modernism	Abel, Elizabeth

Spring, 2017

Course & Section	Course Name	Course Areas
250/1	Research Seminar: Wordsworth and Coleridge in Collaboration	Goodman, Kevis
250/2	Research Seminar: Modernism in Poetry and in Art	Altieri, Charles F.
250/3	Research Seminar: Idols and Ideology—Readings in Augustine, Milton, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Hobbes, Kant, Marx, Freud, Althusser	Kahn, Victoria

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