Module Identifier | EN37620 | |||||||||||
Module Title | REFORMING THE BODY IN ELIZABETHAN ENGLAND | |||||||||||
Academic Year | 2003/2004 | |||||||||||
Co-ordinator | Dr Elizabeth J Oakley-Brown | |||||||||||
Semester | Semester 2 | |||||||||||
Assessment |
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Week 1 Body Narratives. What is a/the body?
'Introduction' in Susanne Scholz, Body Narratives: Writing the Nation and Fashioning the Subject in Early Modern England, Basingstoke, Macmillan, 2000, pp. 1-12
Week 2 England's Protestant Body
Arthur Golding: The myth of Narcissus from The XV. Bookes of P.Ovidius Naso, entitled Metamorphosis, Anon.: The fable of Ovid treting of Narcissus
Week 3 Figuring Otherness. Marlowe: The Massacre at Paris
Week 4 The Body Enclosed. Spenser: Amoretti
Week 5 Mid-term revision session
Week 6 Engendering Bodies. Mary Sidney: The Tragedie of Antonie
Week 7 The Erotic Body. Shakespeare: Venus and Adonis
Week 8 The Ascetic Body. Philip and Mary Sidney: Psalmes
Week 9 Death and Dismemberment. Shakespeare: Titus Andronicus
Week 10 End of term revision session
Recommended Editions
The fable of Ovid treting of Narcissus, Arthur Golding's 'Narcissus' and Mary Sidney's The Tragedie of Antonie will be supplied in photocopy (no copyright implications) and charged to students. Marlowe, The Massacre at Paris (Plays, Wordsworth); Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus (New Arden or Everyman) and Venus and Adonis (New Arden or Everyman); Mary and Philip Sidney, Psalms (Carcanet), Spenser, Amoretti (Works, Wordsworth)
Select Bibliography
Brooks, Peter, 'Introduction' in Body Work: Objects of Desire in Modern Narrative, London and Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1993, pp. 1-27
Burt, Richard and John M. Archer (eds.), Enclosure Acts: Sexuality, Property, and Culture in Early Modern England, Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1994
Bynum, Caroline Walker, 'Why All the Fuss about the Body? A Medievalist's Perspective', Critical Inquiry, 22/1, 1995, 1-33
Greenblatt, Stephen, Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare, Chicago, Chicago University Press, 1980
Hadfield, Andrew, Literature, Politics and National Identity, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1994
Sawday, Jonathan, The Body Emblazoned: Dissection and the Human Body in Renaissance Culture, London and New York, Routledge, 1995
Scholz, Suzanne, Body Narratives: Writing the Nation and Fashioning the Subject in Early Modern England, Basingstoke, Macmillan, 2000
Waddington, Raymond, 'Rewriting the World, Rewriting the Body' in Arthur F. Kinney (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1500-1600, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 287-309
This module is at CQFW Level 6