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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Summary |
"Why 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, 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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Note |
Machine generated contents note: 1. Of the fickle inequality that is between us 2. The fickle fee-simple 3. Just Horatio 4. Ideal Donne 5. Virtuoso Donne 6. Uncouth Milton, part one 7. Uncouth Milton, part two. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
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Literature and society -- England -- History -- 17th century.
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Literature and society. |
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England. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
17th century |
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Social classes in literature.
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Social classes in literature. |
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Renaissance -- England.
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Renaissance. |
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Criticism.
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Criticism. |
| Chronological Term |
1500-1700 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Warley, Christopher, 1969- Reading Class Through Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton 9781107052925 (DLC) 2013032794 (OCoLC)858940205 |
| ISBN |
9781107732261 (electronic book) |
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1107732263 (electronic book) |
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9781107281103 (electronic book) |
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1107281105 (electronic book) |
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9781107052925 |
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1107052920 |
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