Historicizing Early Modern Sexualities
ENGL 349
Fall 2014
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01
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| Crosslisting:
FGSS 350 |
| Course Cluster: Queer Studies |
This course will examine recent historical and theoretical approaches to the history of sexuality in early modern English literature (c. 1580-1620). Our focus will be the historical construction of sexuality in relation to categories of gender, race, nationality, ethnicity, religion, and social status in poetry and dramatic literature and other cultural texts, such as 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 histories of pornography and masturbation. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA ENGL |
| Course Format: Discussion | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (CSCT)(ENGL)(FGSS) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: 50% - 74% |
| 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 in lieu of other written assignments. |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
This course fulfills the English Department's Literary History I, Theory, and Literatures of Difference requirements for the major and contributes to the British Literature and Theory & Literary Forms; it fulfills the Research Option requirement for senior thesis writers. |
| Instructor(s): Korda,Natasha Times: ...W... 07:00PM-09:50PM; Location: ALLB304; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 19 | | SR major: 9 | JR major: 10 | | |
| Seats Available: 0 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 0 | JR non-major: 0 | SO: 0 | FR: X |
| Drop/Add Enrollment Requests | | | | | |
| Total Submitted Requests: 11 | 1st Ranked: 2 | 2nd Ranked: 2 | 3rd Ranked: 1 | 4th Ranked: 0 | Unranked: 6 |
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