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British Literature to 1800
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Preface: How to Use this Book
Bundle 1: Consuming Literature—Then and Now
Consuming Literature
A Gallery of Reading
Recitation: Portrait of a Reader
Bundle 2: Codex and Cloister
When/Where Are We?
Monastics and their Books
The Monastic Imagination
Kickin' Back in the Cloister
Recitation: Calling All Riddlers!
Bundle 3: Elegy and the Poetics of Loss
A Sparrow in the Hall
An Elegy of Place
A Personal Elegy
Riddling Elegies
Recitation: Elegies and the Riddle of Life
Bundle 4A: Beowulf
Beowulf 1: Throwing over some myths
Beowulf 2: Horror
Beowulf 3: Weaving Peace
Beowulf 4: Elegy, Kingship, and Humanity
Recitation: (Re)envisioning Cultural Ideals
Bundle 5: The Invention of (B)romantic Love
The Conquest and its Consequences
The Twelfth Century & the Invention of Courtly Love
Arthurian Romance
Marie de France
Sir Thomas Malory's Arthurian Epic
Recitation: Negotiating Relationships
Bundle 6: Chaucer and his World
Golden Age and Plague
The General Prologue
Medieval Pilgrims on Parade
Reading the Canterbury Tales
Chaucer's Portraits: The Wife of Bath & Clerk
Option 1: The Wife of Bath
Option 2: The Clerk
Reflecting on Chaucer Today
Recitation: The Clerk vs. the Wife of Bath
Bundle 7: Spirituality and Materiality
An "Age of Faith"?
“Women in Walls”: Julian of Norwich and the Anchoritic Experience
Margery Kempe: No Walls, No Limits
Mysteries and Family Life: Matters of Choice
Recitation: Off the record...
Bundle 8: Renaissance Poesy
Renaissance Poetry in Focus
Seizing the Moment
John Donne (1572-1631)
Playing the Sonnet Game
History of the Sonnet
The Sonnet Beyond the Renaissance
Recitation: Playing Sonnets
Bundle 9: Milton and the Art of Persuasion
John Milton: Devil's Advocate
Paradise Lost
Recitation: Our Devils
Bundle 10: Margaret Cavendish: Eco-Poet and World-Maker
Introducing Margaret Cavendish
Poet of the Natural World
Worldmaking
Recitation: Making Your World
1. Bundle 11: Restoration and Innovation
2. Restoration
3. Innovations and Innovators
Alexander Pope: The Culture of Things
4. Samuel Johnson (1709-84): Genius and Disability
Frances Burney (1752-1840)
5. A Gallery of Eighteenth-Century Periodicals
Recitation: Things about the Underworld
Bundle 12: Novel(ties)
6. Varieties of Novel
The World of Fantomina
Fantomina
Recitation: But what happens next???
Bundle 13: The Literature of Slavery and Emancipation
7. Britain and the Slave Trade
8. Olaudah Equiano (c. 1745-1797)
9. Ignatius Sancho (1729-1780)
10. British of African Descent: A Gallery
11. Recitation: The Soul of Humanity
12. Review
Glossary
Resources
About the Authors
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