EARLY MODERN CENTER
Department of English, UCSB

Comp Lit 265: New Worlds

Fall 2000
Professor Richard Helgerson

Sept 25 Introduction
Sept 27 Christopher Columbus, "Letter"*; Stephen Greenblatt, "Marvelous Possessions"*

Oct 2 Thomas More, Utopia, Book 1; Richard Helgerson, "Inventing Noplace"*
Oct 4 Utopia, Book 2

Oct 9 Bartholomé de Las Casas, The Devastation of the Indies, pp. 27-57; Bill Donovan, "Introduction"; Stephanie Merrim, "The Counter-Discourse of Bartolomé de Las Casas"*
Oct 11 Devastation of the Indies, pp. 57-132

Oct 16 John Hawkins, "The Third Troublesome Voyage"* (excerpted from Hakluyt); Spanish Documents Concerning the Naval Battle at San Juan Ulúa (1568)*; Kenneth Andrews, "Hawkins and the Slave Trade"*
Oct 18 Miles Philips, "A Discourse"* (from Hakluyt); Job Hortop, "The Travailes"* (from Hakluyt)

Oct 23 Selections from Homer, Virgil, Ariosto, Tasso, and Camões*
Oct 25 Edmund Spenser, Faerie Queene, Book 2, canto 12*; Greenblatt, "To Fashion a Gentleman"*

Oct 30 Thomas Hariot, Report on Virginia*; Greenblatt, "Invisible Bullets"*
Nov 1 Theodore de Bry, Report on Virginia*; Shannon Miller, "Engendering Investment: Patronage, Profit, and the Female Body in the Virginia Enterprise"*

Nov 6 Walter Ralegh, The Discovery of Guiana* (from Hakluyt); Mary Fuller, "Ralegh's Discoveries: The Two Voyages to Guiana"*
Nov 8 Thomas Lodge, A Margarite of America*; Joan Pong Linton, "Sea-Knights and Royal Virgins"*

Nov 13 William Shakespeare, The Tempest
Nov 15 Michel de Montaigne, "Of Cannibals" and "Of Coaches"*; Greenblatt, "Learning to Curse"*

Nov 20 Aphra Behn, Oroonoko; Srinivas Aravamudan, "Petting Oroonoko" (from copy in department office)
Nov 22 Thanksgiving Break

Nov 27 John Dryden, The Indian Emperor* (handout)
Nov 29 Alexander Pope, Windsor Forest (handout); Joseph Roach, "Feathered Peoples"*

Dec 4 Mini-conference
Dec 6 Mini-conference

Dec 14 Papers due by 3:30 p.m.

*In course reader available at The Alternative in Isla Vista

Links to the texts above are to Early English Books Online or Chadwyck-Healy digital editions (with the exceptions of Christopher Colombus' Letter (U. of Southern Maine) and Montaigne's Essays (Oregon State U.). The page numbers on the syllabus do not necessarily coincide with those of the digital versions. Additional works by the authors above and other printed editions of the works above appear on the Resource Page for this course.

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