Format:
Online-Ressource (xi, 240 p)
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0521842549
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9780521842549
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture 49
Content:
Christopher Warley argues that the formal tensions of the Renaissance sonnet sequence allowed poets to describe and invent new kinds of social distinction. Warley examines the social assumptions embedded in sonnet sequences, and offers a valuable contribution to the study of the social and cultural resonances of lyric forms
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-231) and index
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Series numbering inferred from publisher's listing
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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
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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
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Sonnet Sequences and Social Distinction in Renaissance England
Language:
English
