Political Economy and the States of Literature in Early Modern England
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City Comedies
city comedy analysis
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Civic Pageants
comedies
Court Masque
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Double Entry
Double Entry Bookkeeping
Early Modern Political Economy
early modern trade
economic history England
economic influences on literary form
Edward III
English commercial revolution
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Faerie Queene
Galley Slaves
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Jonson's Entertainment
Jonson’s Entertainment
Lenten Stuffe
literary genre transformation
Lord Mayor
Lord Mayor's Pageant
Lord Mayor's Show
Lord Mayor’s Show
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Merchant Adventurers
Middleton's City Comedies
Middleton's Plays
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Middleton’s City Comedies
Middleton’s Plays
Minor Epic
Nashe's Lenten Stuffe
Nashe’s Lenten Stuffe
Ovid's Banquet
pageant
Philip III
religious context literature
Roaring Girl
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Sir Bounteous
Van Der Noot
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780754667568
- Weight: 544g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Jul 2009
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
