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 ...

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

The Harlem Renaissance author spent her last years writing about the ancient king. Six decades after her death, her unfinished novel has finally been published for the first time ...

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 ...

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, ...

Born on January 25, 1824, in Sagardari, Jessore, Michael Madhusudan Dutt's life was marked with bold decisions and an ...