ENG 401—Honors (Early Literature)

This Honors seminar will concentrate on British literature and culture composed before 1800. Though the specific time period and generic traditions will vary from semester to semester, past seminars have asked how western epic came to embody the most essential values of different cultures, and how seventeenth-century poetry and prose came to grapple with new concepts of agency, emotion, action, and obligation in the years leading up to the English Civil Wars.