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...
| Publicado en: | Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies Vol. 13; no. 3; pp. 84 - 105 |
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University of Pennsylvania Press
2013
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