ENGL 40653 Renaissance Literature and the 'New' Science
Prerequisites: ENGL 10803, ENGL 20803, and at least one 10000- or 20000-level ENGL/WRIT/CRWT course. This course examines how and why artists and scientists in the century c. 1550-1650 interacted intellectually as they did. Topics include influences of scientific developments and discoveries upon European (chiefly British) letters; strategies used by writers to appropriate, revise, or contest scientific development in astronomy, medicine, philosophy and other disciplines; and relationships between scientific and literary discourses of change.