ENGL 3260

Spenser and the Faerie Queene

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2016-2017.

Edmund Spenser is the major Elizabethan writer other than Shakespeare who most influenced English poetry. But students often don't know him, even though, in a way, they have already encountered him: Spenser's grand epic poem, The Faerie Queene, is often seen as a major source of contemporary fantasy literature and even of the plotting of video games. As we will see in this course, it is more - much - more than that. Knights (both male and female) are tested in perilous quests and some very strange figures are encountered  in this complex and intellectually challenging work, a beautifully weird, many-stranded narrative and a fascinating mind-trip through wayward desires and monstrous fears. 

When Offered Spring.

Breadth Requirement (HB)
Distribution Category (LA-AS)

Comments May be used as one of the three pre-1800 courses required of English majors.

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