Literature And The Idea Of Luxury In Early Modern England
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Author |
: Alison V. Scott |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 246 |
Release |
: 2016-05-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317104384 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317104382 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Synopsis Literature and the Idea of Luxury in Early Modern England by : Alison V. Scott
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.
Author |
: Jennifer Andersen |
Publisher |
: University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages |
: 312 |
Release |
: 2012-07-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780812204711 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0812204719 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Synopsis Books and Readers in Early Modern England by : Jennifer Andersen
Books and Readers in Early Modern England examines readers, reading, and publication practices from the Renaissance to the Restoration. The essays draw on an array of documentary evidence—from library catalogs, prefaces, title pages and dedications, marginalia, commonplace books, and letters to ink, paper, and bindings—to explore individual reading habits and experiences in a period of religious dissent, political instability, and cultural transformation. Chapters in the volume cover oral, scribal, and print cultures, examining the emergence of the "public spheres" of reading practices. Contributors, who include Christopher Grose, Ann Hughes, David Scott Kastan, Kathleen Lynch, William Sherman, and Peter Stallybrass, investigate interactions among publishers, texts, authors, and audience. They discuss the continuity of the written word and habits of mind in the world of print, the formation and differentiation of readerships, and the increasing influence of public opinion. The work demonstrates that early modern publications appeared in a wide variety of forms—from periodical literature to polemical pamphlets—and reflected the radical transformations occurring at the time in the dissemination of knowledge through the written word. These forms were far more ephemeral, and far more widely available, than modern stereotypes of writing from this period suggest.
Author |
: Peter Remien |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 237 |
Release |
: 2019-02-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108496810 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1108496814 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Concept of Nature in Early Modern English Literature by : Peter Remien
Participates in an intellectual history of ecology while prompting a re-evaluation of nature in the early modern period.
Author |
: Ezra Horbury |
Publisher |
: Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages |
: 299 |
Release |
: 2019 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781843845423 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1843845423 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Synopsis Prodigality in Early Modern Drama by : Ezra Horbury
Examination of the motif of the prodigal son as treated in early modern drama, from Shakespeare to Beaumont and Fletcher.
Author |
: Edith Snook |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 235 |
Release |
: 2011-03-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780230302235 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0230302238 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (35 Downloads) |
Synopsis Women, Beauty and Power in Early Modern England by : Edith Snook
Divided into three sections on cosmetics, clothes and hairstyling, this book explores how early modern women regarded beauty culture and in what ways skin, clothes and hair could be used to represent racial, class and gender identities, and to convey political, religious and philosophical ideals.
Author |
: Johanna Ilmakunnas |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 252 |
Release |
: 2017-06-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781474258258 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1474258255 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Taste for Luxury in Early Modern Europe by : Johanna Ilmakunnas
Jon Stobart and Johanna Ilmakunnas bring together a range of scholars from across mainland Europe and the UK to examine luxury and taste in early modern Europe. In the 18th century, debates raged about the economic, social and moral impacts of luxury, whilst taste was viewed as a refining influence and a marker of rank and status. This book takes a fresh, comparative approach to these ideas, drawing together new scholarship to examine three related areas in a wide variety of European contexts. Firstly, the deployment of luxury goods in displays of status and how these practices varied across space and time. Secondly, the processes of communicating and acquiring taste and luxury: how did people obtain tasteful and luxurious goods, and how did they recognise them as such? Thirdly, the ways in which ideas of taste and luxury crossed national, political and economic boundaries: what happened to established ideas of luxury and taste as goods moved from one country to another, and during times of political transformation? Through the analysis of case studies looking at consumption practices, material culture, political economy and retail marketing, A Taste for Luxury in Early Modern Europe challenges established readings of luxury and taste. This is a crucial volume for any historian seeking a more nuanced understanding of material culture, consumption and luxury in early modern Europe.
Author |
: Helen Ostovich |
Publisher |
: Associated University Presse |
Total Pages |
: 319 |
Release |
: 2008 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780874139549 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0874139546 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Mysterious and the Foreign in Early Modern England by : Helen Ostovich
"The essays collected in this volume explore many of the most interesting, and some of the more surprising, reactions of English people in the early modern period to their encounters with the mysterious and the foreign. In this period the small and peripheral nation of English speakers first explored the distant world from the Arctic, to the tropics of the Americas, to the exotic East, and snowy wastes of Russia, recording its impressions and adventures in an equally wide variety of literary genres. Nearer home, fresh encounters with the mysterious world of the Ottoman Empire and the lure of the Holy Land, and, of course, with the evocative wonders of Italy, provide equally rich accounts for the consumption of a reading and theatergoing public. This growing public proved to be, in some cases, naive and gullible, in others urbanely sophisticated in its reactions to "otherness," or frankly incredulous of travelers' tales."--BOOK JACKET.
Author |
: Kristine Steenbergh |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 319 |
Release |
: 2021-04-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108495394 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1108495397 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis Compassion in Early Modern Literature and Culture by : Kristine Steenbergh
Explores how early modern Europeans responded to suffering and asks how they both described and practised compassion.
Author |
: Michelle O'Callaghan |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 15 |
Release |
: 2007-02-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781139462563 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1139462563 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Synopsis The English Wits by : Michelle O'Callaghan
In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries the Inns of Court and fashionable London taverns developed a culture of clubbing, urban sociability and wit. The convivial societies that emerged created rituals to define social identities and to engage in literary play and political discussion. Michelle O'Callaghan argues that the lawyer-wits, including John Hoskyns, in company with authors such as John Donne, Ben Jonson and Thomas Coryate, consciously reinvigorated humanist traditions of learned play. Their experiments with burlesque, banquet literature, parody and satire resulted in a volatile yet creative dialogue between civility and licence, and between pleasure and the violence of scurrilous words. The wits inaugurated a mode of literary fellowship that shaped the history and literature of sociability in the seventeenth century. This study will provide many insights for historians and literary scholars of the period.
Author |
: Alison V. Scott |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 2013 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0754664031 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780754664031 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis Languages of Luxury in Early Modern England by : Alison V. Scott