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"--
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| Language: | English |
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Evanston. Illinois :
Northwestern University Press,
2024.
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| 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.