02157nam a22003498a 4500 CR9781107281103 UkCbUP 20171019154627.0 m|||||o||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 130613s2014||||enk s ||1 0|eng|d 9781107281103 (ebook) 9781107052925 (hardback) 9781107681125 (paperback) UkCbUP UkCbUP rda PR428.S65 W37 2014 820.9/355 23 Warley, Christopher, author. Reading Class through Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton / Christopher Warley. Reading Class through Shakespeare, Donne, & Milton Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014. 1 online resource (220 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015). 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. Social classes in literature Criticism Print version: 9781107052925 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107281103 228138 228138