Studies in English Renaissance Literature

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Works of non-dramatic literature written in English or circulated in England from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The course puts the English Renaissance in both a European and colonial context. Genres include, but are not limited to: poetry, political and fictional prose, masques, travel writing, proto-ethnographies, and popular writing (conduct books, ballads, emblems, polemical texts). Authors may include Thomas Wyatt, Henry Howard, Isabella Whitney, Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, Louise Labe, Gaspara Stampa, Sor Juana Della Cruz, Castiglione, Mary Sidney, Ben Jonson, Mary Wroth, Aemilia Lanyer, John Donne, George Herbert, Margaret Cavendish, and Aphra Behn.