{"product_id":"reading-class-through-shakespeare-donne-and-milton-hardback-9781107052925","title":"Reading Class through Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton (Hardback) 9781107052925","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eReading Class through Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThrough detailed readings of six canonical Renaissance works, this book shows the unique ability of literary criticism to describe class.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eChristopher Warley (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781107052925, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 23 January 2014\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e220 pages, 2 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 1.4 x 15.2 cm, 0.47 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Warley provides a rare example of how rich and challenging the language of class can be in renaissance texts.' Joel Swann, Studies in Theatre and Performance\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eWhy study Renaissance literature? Reading Class through Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton examines six canonical Renaissance works to show that reading literature also means reading class. Warley demonstrates that careful reading offers the best way to understand social relations and in doing so he offers a detailed historical argument about what class means in the seventeenth century. Drawing on a wide range of critics, from Erich Auerbach to Jacques Rancière, from Cleanth Brooks to Theodor Adorno, and from Raymond Williams to Jacques Derrida, the book implicitly defends literary criticism. It reaffirms six Renaissance poems and plays, including poems by Donne, Shakespeare's Hamlet, and Milton's Paradise Lost, as the sophisticated and moving works of art that generations of readers have loved. These accessible interpretations also offer exciting new directions for the roles of art and criticism in the contemporary, post-industrial world.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. Of the fickle inequality that is between us\u003cbr\u003e 2. The fickle fee-simple\u003cbr\u003e 3. Just Horatio\u003cbr\u003e 4. Ideal Donne\u003cbr\u003e 5. Virtuoso Donne\u003cbr\u003e 6. Uncouth Milton, part one\u003cbr\u003e 7. Uncouth Milton, part two.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20c%201500%20to%20c%201800%20%5BDSBD%5D%22\"\u003eDSBD\u003c\/a\u003e], Literary theory [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary theory\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20theory%20%5BDSA%5D%22\"\u003eDSA\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46265556631832,"sku":"9781107052925","price":91.88,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781107052925i.jpg?v=1692024189","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/reading-class-through-shakespeare-donne-and-milton-hardback-9781107052925","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}