123046 PS Literary Studies / Proseminar Literature (2021S)

This introductory seminar will focus on literary and cultural texts written in the 16th and 17th century. It will focus on the early modern culture of Elizabethan/Jacobean 'Renaissance' England and on the English encounter with the European continent and the New World. The seminar will provide an introduction to approaches and reading skills relevant for both early modern studies and for the study of literature and culture in general.