Warley, Christopher creator author. text enk 2014 monographic eng

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1 online resource (220 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). 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. Christopher Warley. Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015). Social classes in literature Criticism PR428.S65 W37 2014 820.9/355 9781107281103 (ebook) http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107281103 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107281103 UkCbUP 130613 20171019154627.0 CR9781107281103