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Literature and the Idea of Luxury in Early Modern England (Paperback)
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Literature and the Idea of Luxury in Early Modern England (Paperback)
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Exploring the idea of luxury in relation to a series of neighboring
but distinct concepts including avarice, excess, licentiousness,
indulgence, vitality, abundance, and waste, this study combines
intellectual and cultural historical methods to trace
discontinuities in luxury's conceptual development in
seventeenth-century England. The central argument is that, as
'luxury' was gradually Englished in seventeenth-century culture, it
developed political and aesthetic meanings that connect with
eighteenth-century debates even as they oppose their so-called
demoralizing thrust. Alison Scott closely examines the meanings of
luxury in early modern English culture through literary and
rhetorical uses of the idea. She argues that, while 'luxury' could
and often did denote merely 'lust' or 'licentiousness' as it tends
to be glossed by modern editors of contemporary works, its cultural
lexicon was in fact more complex and fluid than that at this time.
Moreover, that fuller understanding of its plural and shifting
meanings-as they are examined here-has implications for the current
intellectual history of the idea in Western thought. The existing
narrative of luxury's conceptual development is one of progressive
upward transformation, beginning with the rise of economic
liberalism amidst eighteenth-century debates; it is one that
assumes essential continuity between the medieval treatment of
luxury as the sin of 'luxuria' and early modern notions of the idea
even as social practises of luxury explode in early
seventeenth-century culture.
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