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

"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"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Netzley, Ryan, 1972- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Evanston. Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2024.
Series:Rethinking the Early Modern.
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Table of 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.