ENG 310 - The Middle English Period

Taught by: Karen Gross

Content: Introduction to the major genres of English literature from the 13th through the 15th centuries. Political, social, historical, and religious contexts that affected the emergence of English as a literary language and that shaped the lyric, drama, narrative poetry, and prose writing of the period. Readings, all in Middle English, include Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, William Langland's Piers Plowman, Julian of Norwich's Revelations, The Book of Margery Kemp, Sir Orfeo, St. Erkenwald, Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, and shorter poems, as well as selected plays, romances, lyrics, sermons, and tracts.

Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor.