Romancing the Renaissance:
the Feminization of Early Modern Culture in Twentieth Century Mass Media
English 339
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January 26 Introduction: Lord and Taylor promo for Elizabeth; history as Gothic: Tales from the Tower episodes; historical novel and historical drama.
" 28 Marshall Horowitz, Dangerous Beauty; essays on the romance novel and the historical novel; the ideology of adventure.
February 2 Margaret Rosenthal, the Honest Courtesan; Selections from Lynn Lawner's Loives of the Courtesans; Pietro Aretino, I Modi; Excerpts from Lynn Hunt, The Invention of Pornography.
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" 9 Agnes Merlet, Artemisia; Mary Garrard, Artemisia Gentileschi excerpts; Guerilla Girls' Bedside Companion ot the History of Western Art excerpt; related essays.
" 11 Derek Jarman, Caravaggio, excerpts (in lcass screening and discussion)
" 16 Holiday
" 18 Katherine Harrison, Poison; excerpts from Kagan, Lucretia's Dream; "Las Meninas" from Foucault's Order of Things.
" 25 Eurotrashing the Renaissance: national identity and post-Hollywood national Casting: Patrice Chereau, Queen Margot.
" 27 Paul Verhoven, Flesh and Blood.
March 2
4 Sting's music video "If I Ever Lose My faith in You"; Ken Russell's The Devils; readings.
9 BBC vs. Hollywood Drama Quuens: BBC episode about Essex from Elizabeth R; readings; R. Dyer, star as auteur.
11 Bette Davis and Errol Flynn in Michael Curtiz, The Privtae Lives of Elizabteh and Essex.
16 Spring Break
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23 Elizabeth R episode about Leicester; readings.
25 Derek Jarman, the Last of England; Black Adder II (clips); Sally potter, Orlando (clips).
30 Web assignment (no class meetings this week; instead, we'll meet in the library to learn how to enter data on the course webpage).
April 1 "
5 Hal Wallis, Mary, Queen of Scots; Margaret George, Mary, Queen of Scotland and the Isles; M, Curtiz, The Seahawk; William K. Howard, Fire Over England (clips form both films).
7 More Hollywood: Henry Koster, The Virgin Queen; A and E Bette Davis biography; George Sidney, Young Bess (film based on the Margaret Irwin novel); readings; Finney, Firedrake's Eye.
12 Romance novels about Elizabeth I: Brenda joyce, The Game.
14 Vitoria holt, my Enemy, the Queen; readings.
19 The Monarchy in Crisis: Shekhar Kapur, Elizabeth; readings on the cult of Diana and from Queen Victoria's Secrets; Mrs. Brown (clips).
21 The Monarchy as Fairy Tale: Trevor Nunn, Lady Jane; readings; Andy Tennant, Ever After (clips).
26 Fred Zimmerman, A Man for All Seasons.
28 Alexander Korda, Private Lives of Henry VIII; Leah Marcus essay on Henry and his daughters Mary and Elizabeth.
May 3 TV minseries (clips): The Six Wives of Henry VIII
5 Natalie Davis, the Return of Martin Guerre (film and book); Sommersby (clips); Foucalt on infamy.
10 The Romance of Revolution: Baroness Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel; Ettore, La Nuit de Varennes.
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