This course covers non-dramatic prose and poetry of the sixteenth and early-seventeenth centuries, situating these works in their political, social, and cultural contexts. Authors may include More, ...

Veteran author Victoria Christopher Murray returns with her first solo work of historical fiction, “Harlem Rhapsody.” Imagine ...

Kulish himself perished in autumn 1937 in Karelia, just one of 1116 executions of prisoners from the Solovki Islands – among them many fellow writers from The Executed Renaissance, among them Les ...

Stephen Greenblatt, the Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar and literary historian, is one of the foremost authorities on ...

She passed into literary obscurity after becoming one of the Harlem Renaissance’s most promising writers.Credit...Carl Van Vechten, via Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library and The Van ...

Central Illinoisans, I don’t know about you, but I’m tired of explaining to people that I do not live in a cornfield. Okay, ...