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Unit 1. The Middle AgesIntroduction
1.1 Medieval Estates and Orders: Making and Breaking Rules
1.2 Arthur and Gawain: Making Romance
1.3 The First Crusade: Sanctifying War
1.4 The Linguistic and Literary Contexts of Beowulf
Summaries Unit 2. The Sixteenth CenturyIntroduction
2.1 The Magician, the Heretic, and the Playwright: Faustus, Marlowe, and the English Stage
2.2 Renaissance Exploration, Travel, and the World Outside Europe
2.3 Dissent, Doubt, and Spiritual Violence in the Reformation
2.4 Island Nations: Forging and Contesting Identities in the British Isles
Summaries Unit 3. The Early Seventeenth CenturyIntroduction
3.1 Gender, Family, Household: Seventeenth-Century Norms and Controversies
3.2 Paradise Lost in Context
3.3 Civil Wars of Ideas: Seventeenth-Century Politics, Religion, and Culture
3.4 Emigrants and Settlers: Seventeenth-Century Colonial Writing and the Expansion of Englishness
Summaries Unit 4. The Restoration and the Eighteenth CenturyIntroduction
4.1 A Day in Eighteenth-Century London
4.2 Slavery and the Slave Trade in Britain
4.3 The Plurality of Worlds
4.4 Travel, Trade, and the Expansion of Empire
Summaries Unit 5. The Romantic PeriodIntroduction
5.1 Tintern Abbey, Tourism, and Romantic Landscape
5.2 Literary Gothicism
5.3 The French Revolution: Apocalyptic Expectations
5.4 Romantic Orientalism
Summaries Unit 6. The Victorian AgeIntroduction
6.1 Industrialism: Progress or Decline?
6.2 The Woman Question
6.3 The Painterly Image in Poetry
6.4 Victorian Imperialism
Summaries Unit 7. The Twentieth CenturyIntroduction
7.1 Imperialism to Post-Colonialism: Perspectives on the British Empire
7.2 Technology and Warfare
7.3 The Meaning of the Millennium: Apocalyptic Visions and Revisions
7.4 Twentieth-Century Irish Writers
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