Political economy and the states of literature in early modern England
By: Aaron Kitch.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Aldershot
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780754667568; 9780754694830
Subjects: English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism; Economics in literature; Authors, English -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Political and social views; Religion in literature; Great Britain -- Politics and government; Great Britain -- Economic conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Spenser and the 'Right Vsaunce' of wealth; title: Love's exchequer, or the uses of pleasure in the English epyllion; title: Fishing for gold: the political economy of Nashe's Lenten stuffe; title: Shylock's 'sacred nation': commerce, statehood, and the figure of the Jew in Marlowe's Jew of Malta and Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice; title: Character, credit, and belief in Middleton's city comedies; title: Britain's bourse: Jonson and the rival forms of entertainment.