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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      22 September 2009
      28 July 2005
      ISBN:
      9780511484056
      9780521842549
      9780521107532
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511484056
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.532kg, 256 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.38kg, 256 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Printing and Publishing History, Renaissance and Early Modern Literature
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture (49)
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Printing and Publishing History, Renaissance and Early Modern Literature
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture (49)
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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.

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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.'

    Source: 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.'

    Source: Shakespeare Quarterly

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