EN 302 - Renaissance Literature

Institution:

Hilbert College

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Description:

This course critically examines English Renaissance literary texts (poetry, prose, drama), including Continental selections. Writers such as Shakespeare, Sidney, Spenser, Marlowe, Donne, Jonson, and Milton will be considered. Textual discussion is set against the sociohistoric background of the period: the invention of the printing press; the rise of humanistic learning; the religion and politics of the dominant culture; courtly patronage and literary self-fashioning; the movement from a Ptolemaic to a Copernican world view; and the impact of the New World’s discovery.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.hilbert.edu

Phone Number:

(716) 649-7900

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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