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Sonnet sequences and social distinction in Renaissance England /
Why were sonnet sequences popular in Renaissance England? In this study, Christopher Warley suggests that sonneteers created a vocabulary to describe, and to invent, new forms of social distinction before an explicit language of social class existed. The tensions inherent in the genre - between lyri...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2005.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ;
49. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; 1 Sonnet sequences and social distinction; 2 Post-romantic lyric: class and the critical apparatus of sonnet conventions; 3 "An Englishe box": Calvinism and commodities in Anne Lok's A Meditation of a Penitent Sinner; 4 "Nobler desires" and Sidney's Astrophil and Stella; 5 "So plenty makes me poore": Ireland, capitalism, and class in Spenser's Amoretti and Epithalamion; 6 "Till my bad angel fire my good one out": engendering economic expertise in Shakespeare's Sonnets
- 7 "The English straine": absolutism, class, and Drayton's Ideas, 1594-1619Afterword: Engendering class: Drayton, Wroth, Milton, and the genesis of the public sphere; Notes; Index