{"product_id":"sonnet-sequences-and-social-distinction-in-renaissance-england-hardback-9780521842549","title":"Sonnet Sequences and Social Distinction in Renaissance England (Hardback) 9780521842549","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSonnet Sequences and Social Distinction in Renaissance England\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA study of the popularity of sonnet sequences in Renaissance England.\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\"\u003e9780521842549, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 28 July 2005\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e256 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.55 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eReview of the hardback: 'This is a fascinating, groundbreaking work, which should permanently adjust our view of the early modern sonnet sequence.' Shakespeare Quarterly\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eWhy 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e 1. Sonnet sequences and social distinction\u003cbr\u003e 2. Post-romantic lyric: class and the critical apparatus of sonnet conventions\u003cbr\u003e 3. 'An Englishe box': Calvinism and commodities in Anne Lok's A Meditation of a Penitent Sinner\u003cbr\u003e 4. 'Nobler Desires' and Sidney's Astrophil and Stella\u003cbr\u003e 5. 'So plenty makes me poore': Ireland, capitalism, and class in Spenser's Amoretti and Epithalamion\u003cbr\u003e 6. 'Till my bad angel fire my good one out': engendering economic expertise in Shakespeare's Sonnets\u003cbr\u003e 7. 'The English straine': absolutism, class, and Drayton's ideas, 1594–1619\u003cbr\u003e Afterword: engendering class: Drayton, Wroth, Milton, and the genesis of the public sphere.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20general%20%5BDSB%5D%22\"\u003eDSB\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":46000518660376,"sku":"9780521842549","price":90.97,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521842549i_ea6e65b7-0cfa-476a-b99f-5ea8e443ddce.jpg?v=1691368722","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/sonnet-sequences-and-social-distinction-in-renaissance-england-hardback-9780521842549","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}