Sonnet Sequences and Social Distinction in Renaissance England

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 4
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Dedication......Page 7
Contents......Page 9
Preface......Page 11
1 Sonnet sequences and social distinction......Page 14
2 Post-romantic lyric: class and the critical apparatus of sonnet conventions......Page 32
The Dialectic of Romanticism......Page 37
Criticism, Convention, and the Shape of the Renaissance......Page 49
Lok and the sonnet sequence......Page 58
Calvinism and commodities......Page 65
The presuming eye......Page 72
The New Jerusalem......Page 80
4 “Nobler desires” and Sidney\'s Astrophil and Stella......Page 85
Nobler Desires......Page 87
Our English Petrarke......Page 105
Spenser in Ireland......Page 114
Lyric and narrative in the Amoretti......Page 119
Amoretti to Epithalamion......Page 129
“Two loves I have”: classification struggle in the Sonnets......Page 136
“Bad angels”: the emergence of economic discourse......Page 140
Use and a man right fair......Page 147
Misuse, forswearing, and the dark lady......Page 157
Drayton and absolutism......Page 165
Idea 1594–1599......Page 167
Idea 1600–1605......Page 175
Idea 1619 and after......Page 182
Afterword: Engendering class: Drayton, Wroth, Milton, and the genesis of the public sphere......Page 188
1 SONNET SEQUENCES AND SOCIAL DISTINCTION......Page 198
2 POST-ROMANTIC LYRIC: CLASS AND THE CRITICAL APPARATUS OF SONNET CONVENTIONS......Page 207
3 “AN ENGLISHE BOX”: CALVINISM AND COMMODITIES IN ANNE LOK’S A MEDITATION OF A PENITENT SINNER......Page 215
4 “NOBLER DESIRES” AND SIDNEY’S ASTROPHIL AND STELLA......Page 220
5 “SO PLENTY MAKES ME POORE”: IRELAND, CAPITALISM, AND CLASS IN SPENSER’S AMORETTI AND EPITHALAMION......Page 224
6 “TILL MY BAD ANGEL FIRE MY GOOD ONE OUT”: ENGENDERING ECO-NOMIC EXPERTISE IN SHAKESPEARE’S SONNETS......Page 231
7 “THE ENGLISH STRAINE”: ABSOLUTISM, CLASS, AND DRAYTON’S IDEAS, 1594–1619......Page 237
AFTERWORD: ENGENDERING CLASS: DRAYTON, WROTH, MILTON, AND THE GENESIS OF THE PUBLIC SPHERE......Page 242
Index......Page 245