The unit explores how and why we read literature from the past. It addresses the challenges that face readers in attempting to explore early modern literature and of becoming an engaged and interested reader of that literature. How do we -- scholars, students, readers -- find texts that illuminate, complicate, question the topics that concern us? What challenges do such texts present us in terms of both discovery and interpretation?<br/><br/>The unit raises fundamental questions such as: What are we looking for in the texts we read? Can we, or should we, use literature to understand what authors and their contemporary readers thought about an issue: using literary texts as sociological... -- Course Website
Instructor: Dr Patrick Spedding
Prerequisites: First year sequence in English, CCLS or Literary studies.
