17th Century
Seventeenth-century English: devotion, science, colonial encounter, witchcraft trials, fairy faith, biography, poetry, and popular song.
Seventeenth-century ballads and popular songs, carrying border laments, love tragedies, outlaw stories, and oral memory into print.
Seventeenth-century religious prose and poetry: devotion, martyr memory, Protestant conscience, mystical lyric, and disciplined holy living.
Early modern fairy faith and learned folklore, preserving the border between popular tradition, second sight, and theological speculation.
Seventeenth-century literary lives and poetry, including biographical memory, plague writing, and English verse across the Atlantic world.
Seventeenth-century natural philosophy and wonder literature, where experiment, antiquarian curiosity, cosmology, and speculation share a shelf.
Seventeenth-century travel and colonial encounter, following English prose across oceans, captivity, commerce, mission, and imperial imagination.