Ornament and Alterity
...irrational and exotic. We will closely ong>exam ong>ine illustrated books, prints, and buildings of the early modern world (e.g. France, Italy, colonial Latin America, South Asia). The seminar will draw from...
Christianity and Capitalism
According to Max Weber the spirit of Protestantism made possible the emergence of capitalism proper. In his recounting, Spain’s imperial/colonial experience could be bracketed as a previous and/or different moment,...
Restoration and Early 18th Century
...Bunyan, Behn, Rochester, Mary Astell and Eliza Haywood. My selections emphasize the aftermath of Civil War and Puritanism in defeat, the representation of transgressive sexuality, the ong>search for ong> the heroic,...
Romances and Novels
...from romance to novel: d’Urfé’s L’Astrée, Sorel’s Francion, Scarron’s Le Roman ong>com ong>ique, and two works by Lafayette, Zayde and La Princesse de Clèves. All primary and most secondary works will...
Shakespeare
Instead of pursuing a master problematic, we will take up a wide range of issues: when I read Shakespeare these days, I am interested in his representations of citizenship, ong>com ong>passion,...
Seminar on Dante: Writing the Vernacular Reader, From Dante to Boccaccio
In the fifth canto of Dante’s ong>Com ong>media, in one of the most famous episodes of Western literature, Francesca da Rimini blames the adulterous love she shares with her husband’s brother,...
Linguistic History of the Romance languages
...study of the history of Romance. This is a relatively ong>new ong> and very fruitful approach in historical linguistics. It has broadened the task of Romance historians who are beginning to...
Religion and Poetry in Early Modern England
...goal in the course is to notice the moments when religious poetry tells us something ong>new ong> about poetic invention or religious belief. Authors include Petrarch, Thomas Wyatt, Anne Lock, Edmund...
Josquin des Prez and the Historical Record
Josquin des Prez (c. 1450–1521) was arguably the first internationally famous ong>com ong>poser, thanks in part to his extensive travels as well as the explosion of music printing and a ong>new ong>...
Shakespeare’s Italy: Appropriating the Renaissance in Early Modern England
...devote ample space to methodology, in order to discuss and contrast the different approaches ong>for ong> studying the transmission of culture across linguistic and religious borders (translation studies, ong>new ong> historicism, book...