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Political Economy and the States of Literature in Early Modern England (Paperback)
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Political Economy and the States of Literature in Early Modern England (Paperback)
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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.
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