02127nam a22003378a 4500001001600000003000700016005001700023006001900040007001500059008004100074020002600115020002900141020003000170040002400200050002500224082001800249100003400267245008000301246005500381264005200436300005900488336002600547337002600573338003600599500007300635520095200708650003301660650001401693776003501707856004701742CR9781107281103UkCbUP20171019154627.0m|||||o||d||||||||cr||||||||||||130613s2014||||enk     s     ||1 0|eng|d  a9781107281103 (ebook)  z9781107052925 (hardback)  z9781107681125 (paperback)  aUkCbUPcUkCbUPerda00aPR428.S65 bW37 201400a820.9/3552231 aWarley, Christopher,eauthor.10aReading Class through Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton /cChristopher Warley.3 aReading Class through Shakespeare, Donne, & Milton 1aCambridge :bCambridge University Press,c2014.  a1 online resource (220 pages) :bdigital, PDF file(s).  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015).  aWhy 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. 0aSocial classes in literature 0aCriticism08iPrint version: z978110705292540uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107281103