文艺复兴时期和18世纪是英国文学中最丰富的两个时期，也是一些最激动人心的新批判和文本学术研究集中的地区。这些时期之间的关系由于冲突以及可以追溯到它们之间的连续性而特别紧密。十八世纪的所有主要作家都是莎士比亚，琼森，米尔顿和斯宾塞的热情读者，并出版了一些作品的主要版本。然而，教皇和斯威夫特，德莱顿和约翰逊不仅将自己视为文学先驱的传承者，而且将自己视为大师，他们对托特和斯图尔特时代之前的文学作品进行了改正和完善，这是一个黄金时期，但尚未完善。由伟大的作品以及文艺复兴时期和18世纪的文化变迁引发的激烈竞赛中，正
The Renaissance and 18th-Century Literature MA Pathway draws together two of the richest and most fascinating periods in English literary history, encouraging you to think of them as being both in continuity and in contest with one another. The Renaissance and Eighteenth-Century Literature MA pathway covers writers such as Shakespeare, Marlowe, Cavendish, Pope, Swift, Behn and Equiano, and offers modules that consider: how literature responded and contributed to major social and political developments such as the rise of international travel, slavery and empire (including the role of Liverpool in that process); the transition from Renaissance alchemy to modern science; the literary contests fought over form and style across both periods; the theory and practice of scholarly editing; and Shakespeare’s dialogue with both contemporaries and later eighteenth-century adapters.<br><br>Drawing upon the Department’s significant research and teaching strengths in these periods in Renaissance and Eighteenth-Century Literature, the pathway also offers the opportunity to visit local cultural institutions such as the Walker Art Gallery and International Slavery Museum.<br><br>Conversation with other students and researchers through departmental talks, seminars, conferences, and associated research centres such as the Liverpool Medieval and Renaissance Research Centre and the Eighteenth-Century Worlds Centre will help you situate that reading within a thriving academic context.