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Second Life: The Ruines of Time and the Virtual Collectivities of Early Modern Complaint.

This essay reads Edmund Spenser's The Ruines of Time (1591)--an elegy for the Earls of Leicester and Warwick, Sir Philip Sidney, and Sir Francis Walsingham--as a "complaint against the times," a form of writing known for its critique of contemporary social and political conditions. By representing t...

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Published in:Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies Vol. 13; no. 3; pp. 84 - 105
Main Author: SHORTSLEF, EMILY
Format: Essay
Published: University of Pennsylvania Press 2013
Subjects:
Ruines of Time, The (Poem)
Elegiac poetry
Spenser, Edmund, ca. 1552-1599
Social history
Literary form
Leicester, Robert Dudley, Earl of, ca. 1532-1588
Early Modern Period (Literary period)
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