Christopher Warley is Assistant Professor at the Department of English, Oakland University, Michigan.
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.
