Literature and the Idea of Luxury in Early Modern England

ISBN-13: 9780367882495 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 246 str.

Alison V. Scott

Opis

Exploring the idea of luxury in relation to a series of neighbouring but distinct concepts including avarice, licentiousness, indulgence, vitality, abundance and waste, this study combines intellectual and cultural historical methods to trace discontinuities in the conceptual development of extravagance in seventeenth-century England. Scott traces

Spis treści

Problems of definition: the meaning of Spenser's 'wastfull luxuree'.  Cleopatra's spoils: proto-liberal dimensions of early modern luxury.  Sin City: satirizing luxury in early modern London.  Riotous luxury: comical satire and the staging of a new order of things.  Bad markets: remoralized luxury in mercantile literature.  Particularizing abundance: Un-economic luxury in Roman political tragedy.

O autorze

Alison V. Scott is a senior lecturer in the School of English, Media Studies, and Art History at The University of Queensland, Australia. She is also the author of Selfish Gifts: The Politics of Exchange and English Courtly Literature, 1580-1628.