Historicizing Early Modern Sexualities
ENGL 250
Fall 2008
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01
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Crosslisting:
FGSS 275 |
This course will examine recent historical and theoretical approaches to the history of sexuality in the early modern period. Our focus will be the historical construction of sexuality in relation to categories of gender, race, nationality, ethnicity, religion, and social status in a variety of cultural forms, including literary texts, medical treatises, travel narratives, and visual media. Some of the topics we will cover include sexed/gendered/racialized constructions of the body, forms of sexuality prior to the homo/hetero divide, and the history of prostitution and pornography. |
Essential Capabilities:
None |
Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA ENGL |
Course Format: Discussion | Grading Mode: Graded |
Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: ENGL201 OR [FGSS210 or ENGL211 or AMST281] OR [FGSS269 or HIST179] OR [FGSS207 or ANTH207] |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (CSCT)(ENGL)(FGSS) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available |
SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Primary Texts: Ambrose Pare, Of Monsters and Prodigies Nicholas Culpepper, Of the Clitoris Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Love's Cure William Shakespeare, Sonnets Christopher Marlowe, Hero and Leander, Edward II Michel de Montaigne, Of Friendship John Lyly, Gallathea Margaret Cavendish, The Convent of Pleasure John Donne, selected poetry Pietro Aretino, The Licentious Sonnets
Secondary Texts: Valerie Traub, The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England Alan Bray, Homosexuality in Renaissance England Katherine Park, The Rediscovery of the Clitoris Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, Vol. I David Halperin, How to do the History of Homosexuality Thomas Laqueur, Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation, and Making Sex Jonathan Ned Katz, The Invention of Heterosexuality Ian Frederick Moulton, The Prehistory of Pornography Rachel Maines, The Technology of Orgasm
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Examinations and Assignments: Two short papers, one oral presentation, one final research paper (12pp). Research option students will complete one 25 pp. semester long research paper. |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments: This course fulfills the English Department's History I, Theory, and Literatures of Difference requirements for the major and the Research Option requirement for senior thesis writers. |
Instructor(s): Korda,Natasha Times: ....R.. 01:10PM-04:00PM; Location: DAC300; |
Total Enrollment Limit: 20 | | SR major: 10 | JR major: 4 |   |   |
Seats Available: 4 | GRAD: 0 | SR non-major: 4 | JR non-major: 2 | SO: X | FR: X |
Drop/Add Enrollment Requests | | | | | |
Total Submitted Requests: 7 | 1st Ranked: 2 | 2nd Ranked: 2 | 3rd Ranked: 0 | 4th Ranked: 0 | Unranked: 3 |
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