4 hours; 4 credits Studies in literature and culture from the Middle Ages through the Eighteenth Century. Part I of a two-course overview with three principal focuses: 1) the major literary and intellectual movements in historical perspective; 2) the language of literary analysis and the close reading of texts in the genres; and 3) literature as viewed through the various lenses of contemporary theory and critical discourses. Co-requisite: English 1012 [2] or [2.7]