Laura Caroline Stevenson, Stevenson Laura Caroline

Praise and Paradox

Merchants and Craftsmen in Elizabethan Popular Literature
Herausgeber: Roper, Lyndal

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A searching critique of the popular Elizabethan literature that praised merchants, industrialists and craftsmen.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 382g
• ISBN-13: 9780521522076
• ISBN-10: 0521522072
• Artikelnr.: 21632067

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Prefactory note
Introduction: praise and paradox
Part I. Elizabethan Popular Literature: 1. Elizabethan popular literature and its economic context
2. The popular Elizabethan authors
3. The popular Elizabethan audience
Part II. The Business in Armour: 4. Principal citizens and chief yeomen
5. The merchant as usurer: a stock image in decline
6. The merchant as knight, courtier and prince
7. Lessons in diligence and thrift
Part III. The Gentle Craftsman: 8. Clown and rebel: the craftsman as one of 'the fourth sort of people'
9. The gentle craftsman in Arcadia
Appendices
Index.