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Italian literature --- Social classes in literature --- History and criticism

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Through a combined methodology of philology, social theory and archaeology, this book offers a reinterpretation of Statius's 'Silvae'. A special feature is the book's catalogue of material wealth, an examination that for the first time itemizes valuable material objects that appear in the 'Silvae' (eg., furniture, mosaics, aromatics) and evaluates their literary and cultural significance. By mapping the social landscape of various individuals and illuminating the cultural values associated with different types of material and non-material wealth through which widely disparate Romans sought personal distinction and status, the book makes a significant contribution not only to 'Silvae' scholarship, but also to studies on Domitianic culture as a whole.

Laudatory poetry, Latin --- Occasional verse, Latin --- Social classes in literature. --- Wealth in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Statius, P. Papinius --- Rome --- History --- Historiography. --- In literature. --- Social classes in literature --- Wealth in literature --- History and criticism --- Rim --- Roman Empire --- Roman Republic (510-30 B.C.) --- Romi (Empire) --- Byzantine Empire --- Rome (Italy)

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Why were sonnet sequences popular in Renaissance England? In this study, Christopher Warley suggests that sonneteers created a vocabulary to describe, and to invent, new forms of social distinction before an explicit language of social class existed. The tensions inherent in the genre - between lyric and narrative, between sonnet and sequence - offered writers a means of reconceptualizing the relation between individuals and society, a way to try to come to grips with the broad social transformations taking place at the end of the sixteenth century. By stressing the struggle over social classification, the book revises studies that have tied the influence of sonnet sequences to either courtly love or to Renaissance individualism. Drawing on Marxist aesthetic theory, it offers detailed examinations of sequences by Lok, Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare and Milton. It will be valuable to readers interested in Renaissance and genre studies, and post-Marxist theories of class.

Sonnets [English ] --- History and criticism --- English poetry --- Early modern, 1500-1700 --- Literature and society --- England --- History --- 16th century --- 17th century --- Renaissance --- Cycles (Literature) --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Poetry --- English literature --- anno 1500-1599 --- anno 1600-1699 --- Sonnets, English --- Social classes in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Sequels (Literature)