ENGL 3323

In this course, will explore the shifting literary terrains found in the poetry and prose of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, unearthing textual artifacts that will appear both strange and recognizable. Self-fashioning through media, humanity's relationship with the natural world, urbanization, imagined alternative futures, passionate claims of national identity, deadly illnesses upending the social order--these urgent modern issues were also explored in the Renaissance, a period of tremendous literary production and experimentation.