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This course will survey what have long been thought to be the monuments of English literature from the earliest recorded texts to the end of the early Modern period. Classes will provide the background necessary to read these texts both closely and historically and in the light of cultural continuities and differences. The course will also equip students to critique the categories by which texts have been made into such monuments, and so to read against their grain. Students should come away from the reading understanding how English literature has been traditionally understood as well as how it might be understood completely otherwise.