Sonnet sequences and social distinction in Renaissance England

Abstract

Preface 1. Sonnet sequences and social distinction 2. Post-romantic lyric: class and the critical apparatus of sonnet conventions 3. 'An Englishe box': Calvinism and commodities in Anne Lok's A Meditation of a Penitent Sinner 4. 'Nobler Desires' and Sidney's Astrophil and Stella 5. 'So plenty makes me poore': Ireland, capitalism, and class in Spenser's Amoretti and Epithalamion 6. 'Till my bad angel fire my good one out': engendering economic expertise in Shakespeare's Sonnets 7. 'The English straine': absolutism, class, and Drayton's ideas, 1594-1619 Afterword: engendering class: Drayton, Wroth, Milton, and the genesis of the public sphere.

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