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Sonnet Sequences and Social Distinction in Renaissance England

Sonnet Sequences and Social Distinction in Renaissance England

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Part of Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

  • Date Published: April 2009
  • availability: Available
  • format: Paperback
  • isbn: 9780521107532

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  • 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 lyric and narrative, between sonnet and sequence - offered writers a means of reconceptualizing the relation between individuals and society, a way to try to come to grips with the broad social transformations taking place at the end of the sixteenth century. By stressing the struggle over social classification, the book revises studies that have tied the influence of sonnet sequences to either courtly love or to Renaissance individualism. Drawing on Marxist aesthetic theory, it offers detailed examinations of sequences by Lok, Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare and Milton. It will be valuable to readers interested in Renaissance and genre studies, and post-Marxist theories of class.

    • Clear reading of Renaissance sonnet sequences
    • Innovative use of Marxist theory
    • Examines literary form and social class
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    Review of the hardback: '… a bold book that should be welcomed by anyone keen to open up debate about the early modern period.' The Times Literary Supplement

    Review of the hardback: 'This is a fascinating, groundbreaking work, which should permanently adjust our view of the early modern sonnet sequence.' Shakespeare Quarterly

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    • Date Published: April 2009
    • format: Paperback
    • isbn: 9780521107532
    • length: 256 pages
    • dimensions: 229 x 152 x 15 mm
    • weight: 0.38kg
    • availability: Available
  • Table of 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, 1594–1619
    Afterword: engendering class: Drayton, Wroth, Milton, and the genesis of the public sphere.

  • Author

    Christopher Warley, University of Toronto
    Christopher Warley is Assistant Professor at the Department of English, Oakland University, Michigan.

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