Reading Class Through Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton

by Christopher Warley

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 110768112X
• ISBN13: 9781107681125
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 219 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"