The afterlife of Shakespeare's sonnets /

The afterlife of Shakespeare's sonnets /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Kingsley-Smith, Jane, 1973- author.
Imprint:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019. ©2019
Description:	ix, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616. -- Sonnets. Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Appreciation. Sonnets (Shakespeare, William) Sonnets, English -- History and criticism. Sonnets, English. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11948908

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ISBN:	9781107170650 1107170656 9781316767238
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Why did no one read Sonnet 18 for over one hundred years? What traumatic memories did Sonnet 111 conjure up for Charles Dickens? Which Sonnet did Wilfred Owen find particularly offensive on the WW1 battlefront? What kind of love does Sonnet 116 celebrate and why? Filling a surprising gap in Shakespeare studies, this book offers a challenging new reception history of the Sonnets and explores their belated entry into the Shakespeare canon. Jane Kingsley-Smith reveals the fascinating cultural history of individual Sonnets, identifying those which were particularly influential and exploring why they rose to prominence. This is a highly original study which argues that we should redirect our attention away from the story that the Sonnets tell as a sequence, to the fascinating afterlife of individual Shakespeare Sonnets"--
Other form:	ebook version : 9781316767238

Table of Contents:

Introduction : why Shakespeare's sonnets need an afterlife
Loved when they alteration find, 1598-1622
Annals of all-wasting time, 1623-1708
One thing to my purpose nothing, 1709-1816
As with your shadow I with these did play, 1817-1900
A waste of shame, 1901-1997
Conclusion : but thy eternal summer shall not fade, 1998-2018.