Economies of praise : value, labor, and form in seventeenth-century English poetry / Ryan Netzley.

Author/creator Netzley, Ryan, 1972- author.
Format Book
PublicationEvanston. Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2024.
Copyright Date©2024
Descriptionx, 244 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesRethinking 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 noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Genre/formCriticism, interpretation, etc.
LCCN 2023040787
ISBN9780810146709
ISBN9780810146723 paperback
ISBN081014672X paperback
ISBN0810146703 hardcover
ISBNelectronic book

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