ENGL 3410 - Seduction, Revolution, and the Rise of Science

3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: (for majors) ENGL 2120 or 2130 with a C or higher.
Description
When, on the morning of 30 January 1649, Charles I was led onto the scaffold outside St. James’s Palace and publicly executed, England was suddenly without a monarch. This course studies how various writers responded to €”and were shaped by €”some of the nation’s most violent and turbulent decades. It was a period in which sensual poetry flourished and modern scientific writing was published for the first time. Read works by such authors as Francis Bacon, John Donne, George Herbert, Thomas Hobbes, Aemilia Lanyer, Andrew Marvell, and John Milton.