Political Economy and the States of Literature in Early Modern England

Aaron Kitch (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

228 Seiten

2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-27623-9 (ISBN)

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Crossing the disciplinary borders between political, religious, and economic history, Aaron Kitch's innovative new study demonstrates how sixteenth-century treatises and debates about trade influenced early modern English literature by shaping key formal and aesthetic concerns of authors between 1580 and 1630. The author's analysis concentrates on a commonly overlooked period of economic history-the English commercial revolution before 1620-and, utilizing an impressive combination of archival research, close reading, and attention to historical detail, traces the transformation of genre in both neglected and canonical texts. The topics here are wide-ranging but are presented with a commitment to providing a concrete understanding of the religious, political, and historic context in literary thought. Kitch begins with the emerging wool trade and explosion of economic writing, Spenser's glorification of commerce and the Protestant state as presented in The Faerie Queene, and writers such as Thomas Nashe who drew on the same economic principles to challenge Spenser. Other topics include the reaction to the herring trade in prose satire and pamphlets, the presentation of Jewish trading nations in Shakespeare and Marlowe, and the tension between the crown and London merchants as reflected in Middleton's city comedies and Jonson's and Munday's pageants and court masques.

Aaron Kitch is Assistant Professor of English at Bowdoin College, USA.

Introduction; 1: Spenser and the “Right Vsaunce” of Wealth; 2: Love's Exchequer, or The Uses of Pleasure in the English Epyllion; 3: Fishing for Gold; 4: Shylock's “Sacred Nation”; 5: Character, Credit, and Belief in Middleton's City Comedies; 6: Britain's Burse; Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum	08.01.2017
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-138-27623-5 / 1138276235
ISBN-13	978-1-138-27623-9 / 9781138276239
Zustand	Neuware