Economies of praise : value, labor, and form in seventeenth-century English poetry / Ryan Netzley.
| Author/creator | Netzley, Ryan, 1972- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Evanston. Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2024. |
| Copyright Date | ©2024 |
| Description | x, 244 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Rethinking the Early Modern Rethinking the Early Modern. ^A1257318 |
| Contents | Introduction "You're Great": Value, Time, and the Reader's Work in Seventeenth-Century Poems of Praise -- The Value of Now: Jonson, Literary Presents, and the Surveying Reader -- Insignificant Numbers: Sequence, Size, and the Value of Counting in Herrick and Marvell -- More Mine, Then Thine: Praise, "Praise," and the Repetition of Value in Devotional Poetry -- She's Dead: Metaphorical Work and Exemplary Mourning in Marvell, Hutchinson, and Bradstreet -- Henceforth Thus Then: Explanation, Repetition, and Praise in Paradise Lost -- Time's Up: Learning from Praise. |
| Abstract | "Ryan Netzley explores how poems of praise imagine alternatives to market and gift economies, pointing to a self-contained aesthetic economy that works against a more expansive and productivist understanding of literary art"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| LCCN | 2023040787 |
| ISBN | 9780810146709 |
| ISBN | 9780810146723 paperback |
| ISBN | 081014672X paperback |
| ISBN | 0810146703 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |
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