Welcome to Professor Rerecich's British Literature Course! I am here to assist you in your research journey for your final assignment.
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Definition of Monster Theory from Jeffrey Jerome Cohen's "Monster Theory (Seven Theses)": "a method of reading cultures from the monsters they engender" or, in your professor's words: a type of literary and cultural criticism that looks at monsters and monstrous characters to see what they reveal about the cultures that created them.
British Literature: Survey of English literature from Anglo-Saxon times through the 18th Century. Examples of texts/authors read include Beowulf, Arthurian myths, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Chaucer, Kempe, Spenser, Milton, Swift, Defoe, and Shakespeare.
