Historicizing Early Modern Sexualities
ENGL 349
Spring 2020
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01
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| Crosslisting:
FGSS 350, CHUM 345 |
| Course Cluster: Queer Studies |
This course will examine recent historical and theoretical approaches to the history of sexuality in early modern English literature (ca. 1580-1680). Our focus will be the historical construction of sexuality in relation to categories of gender, race, religion, and social status in a variety of sources, both literary and nonliterary, verbal and visual, including poetry, plays, masques, medical treatises, travel narratives, and visual media. Topics covered include intersecting constructions of the sexed/gendered/racialized body; diverse sexual practices; sexual identities 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: ENGL201 |
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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:
Pietro Aretino, I SONNETTI LUSSURIOSI (THE LICENTIOUS SONNETS)
Richard Barnfield, THE AFFECTIONATE SHEPHERD
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, LOVE'S CURE
Aphra Behn, POEMS
Margaret Cavendish, THE CONVENT OF PLEASURE
John Donne, POEMS
John Lyly, GALLATHEA
Christopher Marlowe, HERO AND LEANDER AND EDWARD II
Thomas Nashe, A CHOICE OF VALENTINES
Katherine Philips, POEMS
William Shakespeare, SONNETS
Secondary Texts:
Alan Bray, HOMOSEXUALITY IN RENAISSANCE ENGLAND
Michel Foucault, THE HISTORY OF SEXUALITY, VOLUME I
David Halperin, HOW TO DO THE HISTORY OF HOMOSEXUALITY
Thomas Laquer, SOLITARY SEX: A CULTURAL HISTORY OF MASTURBATION and MAKING SEX: BODY AND GENDER
Rachel Maines, THE TECHNOLOGY OF ORGASM
Ian Moulton, BEFORE PORNOGRAPHY
Katherine Park, THE REDISCOVERY OF THE CLITORIS
Betty Talvacchia, TAKING POSITIONS: ON THE EROTIC IN RENAISSANCE CULTURE
Valerie Traub, THE RENAISSANCE OF LESBIANISM IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND
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Examinations and Assignments:
Several short papers and a longer, final research paper. |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
Enrollment for this class is by permission of instructor. Please email a 250 word statement before or during preregistration to Professor Natasha Korda (nkorda@wesleyan.edu) including your major/year, why you would like to take the class, and any related coursework you have done.
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 in both English and FGSS. |
| Instructor(s): Korda,Natasha Times: ...W... 01:20PM-04:10PM; Location: CFH106; |
Permission of Instructor Required
Enrollment capacity: 15 | Permission of instructor approval will be granted by the instructor during pre-registration through the Electronic Portfolio. Click "Add to My Courses" and "To request a POI electronically, click here" to submit your request. |
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