SITE NAVIGATION Early modern Europe discovered the world, but in a more profound sense than simply circumnavigating the globe and expanding the geographical horizon. Early modern Europe discovered the idea of the discoverable world. Trade brought Europeans into contact with the cultures of the new world; the scholarly movement known as humanism revived the texts of the ancient world; the anatomists Vesalius and Harvey opened up new regions of the microcosm, the bodily world; and astronomers such as Copernicus and Galileo brought into focus celestial worlds. The proliferation of worlds ripe for discovery reaches its apogee in Bruno's vision of worlds stretching into infinite space--an image promising never ending quest, conquest, and colonialization. This course will explore some of the worlds discovered by early modernity, since the trope of exploration is appropriate for students trying to focus on a distant, alien culture. However, discovering and demarcating a world are never achievements of vision alone; they always involve the inner eye, the imagination. Every explorer, whether sailor, scientist, or scholar, projects onto the Other images from and of the self. And indeed, this structural constraint has a bearing just as much on the student of early modern literature as on early modern explorers. Thus one of the aims of this course is to demonstrate that discovering a world is less a product of sight than a product of the imagination, fantasy, ideology. It is really a world just beyond one's sight. This web site is designed to be an integral component of English 3045. Not only does the site allow you to explore the World Wide Web, but it also concentrates valuable resources that include images of paintings, electronic texts, scholarly information, and course administration. Furthermore, this course's emphasis on rhetoric and print culture allows us to consider the ways in which hypertext and cyberspace imagine the world(s) of early modernity. Hypertext writers, for example, often represent the early modern print revolution as a meaningful analogue to the era of the computer. There are four main areas to this site: This area of the site contains all the administrative information for every assignment, including due dates, purposes, instructions, and grading criteria. This area outlines the lecture topic of every class along with the assigned readings and the particular discussion topics and questions. Students are responsible for all assigned readings and all discussion topics and questions. Topics and questions that are not dealt with in class will still appear on the final exam, so please follow this site in your day to day reading. This area provides access to readings and materials used in lectures and assignments. It also provides supplementary resources for your own reading. Gallery of Links is organized according to the 8 main divisions of the syllabus. All notifications of any changes or revisions to the overall web site will be posted below. RECENT REVISIONS AND ADDITIONS