Renaissance Literature: Nondramatic

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This course studies the development of poetry and prose in 16th and 17th-centuryEngland in relation to major and influential works and figures from continental Europe. Topics include the rise of Humanism; translation and imitation; the popularity of amorous and rogue fiction; political thinkers and philosophers; religious tensions between Catholics and Protestants; cross-cultural contacts and exchange with the Americas, Africa, and Asia, etc.