Early Modern Literature: Sexuality and Spirituality

Spring 2006

Dr. Margaret Hannay

 

Office hours:         Mon 9:30-11:30     Kiernan Hall 230

                                                TTh 9:30-10:30                      783-4282

                                                Wed 3:35-4:35       http://www.siena.edu/hannay

                                                and by appointment            Email: hannay@siena.edu

 

TEXTS

Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume IB

Othello and Mariam (Longman)

Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress

 

Jan 17                     Introduction

 

Jan 19                     Early Modern Period (641-50)

                                Donne (1647)--Sexuality: “The Good Morrow,”  “Song,” “The Sun Rising,” “The Canonization,”  “Valediction: Forbidding Mourning.”  Optional-- “Elegy 19”

 

Jan 24                     Donne--Spirituality: “Holy Sonnets,” “For Whom the Bell Tolls”

                                Jonson:  “To John Donne” (1629)

 

Jan 26                     Spirituality, Magic, and Witchcraft:  Dr Faustus, Acts 1 and 2, 1143 [Job Candidate]

 

Jan 31                     Dr Faustus, Acts 3 -5

Norton Topics Online   http://www.wwnorton.com/nael  16th C/Magician/Texts and Context : Richard Baines to Privy Council; Thomas Beard; News from Scotland

 

Feb 2                      Dr. Faustus

 

Feb 7                      Spirituality:  Elegy

                                Jonson: “On my First Daughter” (1628),  “On my First Son” (1629)

                                Philips: “On … Hector Philips” (handout)

                                Milton: “Lycidas” (1819)

                                Vaughan: “They are All Gone into the World of Light!” (1722)

 

Feb 9                      Paradise Lost (see handout focusing on Adam and Eve)

                                Genesis 1-4 (on-line or in any Bible; Milton used King James/ Authorized

 

Feb 14                    Paradise Lost

 

Feb 16                    Paradise Lost

                                TOPICS DUE

 

Feb 21                    Paradise Lost

 

Feb 23                    Margaret Fell, “Women’s Speaking Justified,” Renaissance Women Online

                                Lanyer, “Pilate’s Wife,” 1101; Speght, “Of Women’s Excellency” from Muzzle (1505)

 

Feb 28                    MIDTERM EXAM

 

Mar 2                      Herrick (1674):  “Argument,” “Delight,” “Corinna's Going A Maying,” “To the Virgins,” “Upon Julia's Clothes,” “To His Book's End”

 

Mar 7                      Marvell, “To His Coy Mistress” 1730

                                Lovelace (1711):“To Lucasta,” “To Althea,” “Love Made

                                Whitney (1051):  “Inconstant Love,” “Admonition”

                                Barnfield, Sonnets from Cynthia (1120)

                                Optional---Behn, “The Disappointment” < http://www.poetry-archive.com>

 

Mar 9                      Wroth: Pamphilia to Amphilanthus (1668) and Urania (1758)

                                Ephelia: “To my rival”        http://www.montana.edu:80/wwwwhitn/ephelia.html

 

March 14. 16         SPRING BREAK

 

Mar 21                    FILM in AV Room (Library 12) Othello; read Acts 1-3

 

Mar 23                    FILM in AV Room (Library 12) Othello; read Acts 4-5

 

Mar 28                    Othello

 

Mar 30                    Othello

                                Prospectus due

 

Apr 4                      Mariam

                                Jonson: Cary and Morison (1635)

 

Apr 6                      Mariam

                                The Lady Falkland Her Life

 

Apr 11                    Jonson: “To Penshurst” (1630)

                                Lanyer:  “Description of Cooke-ham” (1093)

                                Letters of Robert Sidney to his wife Barbara Gamage [e-reserve]

 

Apr 13                    Bacon: “Of Marriage and the Single Life” (1750)

                                Bradstreet: “To My Dear and Loving Husband,” and “A Letter to My Husband” (e-reserve)

                                Othello and Mariam text: Tracts on Marriage (274--choose any 3)

 

Apr 18                    EASTER BREAK

 

Apr 20                    George Herbert  (1685):  “The Altar,” “Easter,” “Easter Wings,” “Jordan I,” “The Collar,” “Love (3)”

 

Apr 25                    Crashaw:  “To the Countess of Denbigh” (1710)

                                Bunyan, Pilgrim’s Progress

                                TERM PAPERS/ PROJECTS DUE

 

Apr 27                    Bunyan, Pilgrim’s Progress  (see handout)

                                Spiritual diaries; Thornton (2044) and Josselin (2048)

                                Bradstreet, “On the Burning of My House” (e-reserve)

 

May 2                     Bunyan, Pilgrim’s Progress

 

May 4                     Review for final exam