This unit enables students to pursue specialist studies in literature and culture of the medieval or early modern periods (500–1750). A variety of thematic foci, genres and contexts that were significant in either of these periods is chosen from time to time, depending on staff availability. However, the unit always offers the opportunity for intensive textual analysis, informed by current critical and theoretical understandings of the period in question, of the relationships between literature, history, philosophy and politics, and of language and textuality. -- Course Website
Prerequisites: sufficient units to ensure admission to Honours in English and Cultural Studies or Medieval and Early Modern Studies
