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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Cambridge University Press
2005
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| Schriftenreihe: | Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Sonnet sequences and social distinction
- Post-romantic lyric: class and the critical apparatus of sonnet conventions
- "An Englishe box" : Calvinism and commodities in Anne Lok's A Meditation of a Penitent Sinner
- "Noble desires" and Sidney's Astrophil and Stella
- "So plenty makes me poore": Ireland, capitalism, and class in Spenser's Amoretti and Epithalamion
- "Till my bad angel fire my good one out": engendering economic expertise in Shakespeare's Sonnets
- "The English straine": absolutism, class, and Drayton's Ideas, 1594-1619
- Afterword: Engendering class: Drayton, Wroth, Milton, and the genesis of the public sphere