ENGL 3553 - Great Literature: Renaissance and Modern

This course introduces students to representative texts of Great Literature from the Renaissance to the Modern periods that have had a literary, religious, and/or cultural impact upon the world. Selections read in the class may include texts from authors such as Machiavelli, Shakespeare, Wu Cheng’en, John Milton, Bunyan, Francis Bacon, Descartes, Jonathan Swift, Rousseau, Adam Smith, Jane Austen, Goethe, Mozart, Kierkegaard, John Henry Newman, Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky. Class 3. Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1023.