Literature, Money and the Market: From Trollope to Amis, argues that literary institutions have been saturated with hostility to commerce and the market that goes back to Plato. It traces the division in English culture between the prestige values of the aristocracy and the material values of the commercial class. The book is a fresh look at both the representation of money in English literature, and the economic situation of writers.
Literature, Money and the Market: From Trollope to Amis, argues that literary institutions have been saturated with hostility to commerce and the mark...
Originally published in 1969. In the seventeenth century neither the literary genre nor the term autobiography existed but we see in seventeenth-century literature many kinds of autobiographical writings, to which their authors gave such titles as "Journal of the Life of Me, Confessions," etc. This work is a study of nearly two hundred of these, published and unpublished, which together represent a very varied group of writings.
The book begins with an examination of the rise of autobiography as a genre during the Renaissance. It discusses seventeenth-century autobiographical writings...
Originally published in 1969. In the seventeenth century neither the literary genre nor the term autobiography existed but we see in seventeenth-ce...
