245 10 |a Reading class through Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton / |c Christopher Warley, University of Toronto.

260 __ |a Cambridge ; |a New York : |b Cambridge University Press, |c c2014.

505 8_ |a 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.

520 __ |a "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 Ranci锟絜re, 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"-- |c Provided by publisher.

650 _0 |a English literature |y Early modern, 1500-1700 |x History and criticism.

650 _7 |a LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. |2 bisacsh

856 42 |3 Cover image |u http://assets.cambridge.org/97811070/52925/cover/9781107052925.jpg