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Author | : Alison V. Scott |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2016-05-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317104382 |
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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.
Author | : Andrew McRae |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2009-08-27 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521448376 |
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In the early modern period, the population of England travelled more than is often now thought, by road and by water: from members of the gentry travelling for pleasure, through the activities of those involved in internal trade, to labourers migrating out of necessity. Yet the commonly held view that people should know their places, geographically as well as socially, made domestic travel highly controversial. Andrew McRae examines the meanings of mobility in the early modern period, drawing on sources from canonical literature and travel narratives to a range of historical documents including maps and travel guides. He identifies the relationship between domestic travel and the emergence of vital new models of nationhood and identity. An original contribution to the study of early modern literature as well as travel literature, this interdisciplinary book opens up domestic travel as a vital and previously underexplored area of research.
Author | : Christopher J. Berry |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 1994-06-16 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780521466912 |
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This book analyses the idea of luxury, shows how its evaluative meaning has changed, and explores its role in the determination of social order.
Author | : Ezra Horbury |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1843845423 |
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Examination of the motif of the prodigal son as treated in early modern drama, from Shakespeare to Beaumont and Fletcher.
Author | : Peter Remien |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2019-02-14 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1108496814 |
Download The Concept of Nature in Early Modern English Literature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Participates in an intellectual history of ecology while prompting a re-evaluation of nature in the early modern period.
Author | : J. A. Sharpe |
Publisher | : Hodder Education |
Total Pages | : 379 |
Release | : 1987-01-01 |
Genre | : Angleterre - Conditions sociales |
ISBN | : 9780713165128 |
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Author | : Helen Ostovich |
Publisher | : Associated University Presse |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0874139546 |
Download The Mysterious and the Foreign in Early Modern England Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"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 | : Edith Snook |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2011-03-08 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0230302238 |
Download Women, Beauty and Power in Early Modern England Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : Kristine Steenbergh |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2021-04-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108495397 |
Download Compassion in Early Modern Literature and Culture Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Explores how early modern Europeans responded to suffering and asks how they both described and practised compassion.
Author | : Johanna Ilmakunnas |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2017-06-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1474258255 |
Download A Taste for Luxury in Early Modern Europe Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.