Seventeenth-Century English Literature

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A sustained inquiry into the wide variety of writings that emerged from the tumultuous times of 17th-century Britain. The course may cover plays, poetry, court masques, visions, new world explorations and utopias, short romance, early novels, and popular pamphlets produced by proliferating printing presses. It may include works by Donne and the metaphysical poets; Jonson and the Cavalier poets; radicals such as Milton, Marvell, the Levellers, the Ranters, and the Diggers; and women writers such as Lanyer, Wroth, Cavendish, Hutchinson, Trapnel, and Behn. CAS-B-LIT.