Sonnet Sequences and Social Distinction in Renaissance England by Christopher Warley
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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Materializing Gender in Early Modern English Literature and Culture
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Subject and Object in Renaissance Culture
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Shakespeare and the Geography of Difference
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Anxious Masculinity in Early Modern England
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Defending Literature in Early Modern England
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The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England
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The Project of Prose in Early Modern Europe and the New World
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The Performance of Nobility in Early Modern European Literature
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Eroticism on the Renaissance Stage
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Memory and Forgetting in English Renaissance Drama
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The Marketplace of Print
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The Limits of Eroticism in Post-Petrarchan Narrative
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The Poetics of English Nationhood, 1590–1612
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Before Orientalism
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Ben Jonson and Possessive Authorship
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The Italian Encounter with Tudor England
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Discovering the Subject in Renaissance England
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Knowledge, Discovery and Imagination in Early Modern Europe
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Science, Reading, and Renaissance Literature
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Courtly Letters in the Age of Henry VIII
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Shakespeare and Domestic Loss
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Theatres and Encyclopedias in Early Modern Europe
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The Poetics of Melancholy in Early Modern England
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The Rhetoric of the Body from Ovid to Shakespeare
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The French Fetish from Chaucer to Shakespeare
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Theatre, Finance and Society in Early Modern England
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Gender and Literacy on Stage in Early Modern England
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Seizures of the Will in Early Modern English Drama
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Voyages in Print
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The Reformation of the Subject
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The Emergence of the English Author
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Bodies and Selves in Early Modern England
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From Playhouse to Printing House
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The Culture of Slander in Early Modern England
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Mimesis and Empire
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The Romance of the New World
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Writing, Gender and State in Early Modern England
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Author's Pen and Actor's Voice
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
Review of the hardback: 'This is a fascinating, groundbreaking work, which should permanently adjust our view of the early modern sonnet sequence.' Shakespeare Quarterly
Christopher Warley is Assistant Professor at the Department of English, Oakland University, Michigan.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521842549 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521842549 |
| Title | Sonnet Sequences and Social Distinction in Renaissance England |
| Author | Christopher Warley |
| Series | Cambridge Studies In Renaissance Literature And Culture |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2005-07-28 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
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