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**//Spring 2011 //** ENGL 2200-01 and 2200-02 
 * Instructor: Dr. Kisha Tracy **

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 * **Ask questions, offer insights, comment on your colleagues' posts. **
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//__**<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Make this an enlightening space to discover early British literature. **__// <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;">

This course seeks to survey the major British literary texts from the Middle Ages through the seventeenth century. During this exploration, we will study and discuss significant historical moments as well as cultural characteristics that defined the literary imagination and influenced authors to create their writings. We will trace the development of themes and trends from Anglo-Saxon England to the Renaissance and beyond, from the time of Chaucer to Shakespeare. What connects these major authors? How did their changing worlds affect their writing? What are our current perceptions, and should we reevaluate them?