Middlebury

ENAM 0305

Love Stories

Love Stories: Desire & Gender in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (I)
Our modern conceptions of desire, self, body and gender are informed in complex and often invisible ways by earlier narratives of love. We will investigate the conflicting accounts of love written during the medieval and early modern periods, considering in particular the relationship between the idealized notion of "courtly love" and the darker, medical picture of love as a form of madness or melancholia. Reading a variety of works including lyric, drama, romance and medical texts, we will look at the construction of gender and sexuality, the relationship between desire and subjectivity, and the gendering of certain "diseases" of love (such as hysteria) during this period. Authors to be studied will include: Chaucer, Boccaccio, Petrarch, Dante, Shakespeare, and a selection of male and female lyric poets. 3 hrs. lect./disc.
Subject:
English & American Literatures
Department:
English & American Literatures
Division:
Literature
Requirements Fulfilled:
EUR LIT
Equivalent Courses:
CMLT 0305
ENGL 0305 *
LITP 0305

Sections

Spring 2015

ENAM0305A-S15 Lecture (Wells)

Spring 2011

ENAM0305A-S11 Lecture (Wells)
ENAM0305X-S11 Discussion (Wells)
ENAM0305Y-S11 Discussion (Wells)
ENAM0305Z-S11 Discussion (Wells)

Spring 2008

ENAM0305A-S08 Lecture (Wells)
ENAM0305Y-S08 Discussion (Wells)
ENAM0305Z-S08 Discussion (Wells)

Spring 2007

ENAM0305A-S07 Lecture (Wells)
ENAM0305Y-S07 Discussion (Wells)
ENAM0305Z-S07 Discussion (Wells)