Politics of Literature in the English Renaissance

Undergraduate

examines how writers, publishers, and other literary agents contributed to or destabilized political image-building, the mystification of power, and the representation of authority under the Tudors (1485-1603). We will situate literary works within contemporary political, social, and religious cultures in order to delineate the complex networks through which they were produced and disseminated among diverse communities of readers throughout the sixteenth and early seventeenth century.