The Transoceanic Renaissance

The emergence of a transatlantic and transpacific culture in the early modern period. How is the Renaissance of Europe and England fashioned in a conversation with the cultural forms and material realities of the colonial Americas? And how do colonial writings expand and complicate the available understanding of the Renaissance? Readings in More, Hakluyt, Léry, Spenser, Camões, Williams, Erauso, Shakespeare, the Inca Garcilaso de la Vega.