Literature and the Idea of Luxury in Early Modern England 1st edition by Alison Scott ISBN 0367882493 978-0367882495

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ISBN 10: 0367882493
ISBN 13: 978-0367882495
Author: Alison Scott

Exploring the idea of luxury in relation to a series of neighboring but distinct concepts including avarice, excess, licentiousness, indulgence, vitality, abundance, and waste, this study combines intellectual and cultural historical methods to trace discontinuities in luxury’s conceptual development in seventeenth-century England. The central argument is that, as ’luxury’ was gradually Englished in seventeenth-century culture, it developed political and aesthetic meanings that connect with eighteenth-century debates even as they oppose their so-called demoralizing thrust. Alison Scott closely examines the meanings of luxury in early modern English culture through literary and rhetorical uses of the idea. She argues that, while ’luxury’ could and often did denote merely ’lust’ or ’licentiousness’ as it tends to be glossed by modern editors of contemporary works, its cultural lexicon was in fact more complex and fluid than that at this time. Moreover, that fuller understanding of its plural and shifting meanings-as they are examined here-has implications for the current intellectual history of the idea in Western thought. The existing narrative of luxury’s conceptual development is one of progressive upward transformation, beginning with the rise of economic liberalism amidst eighteenth-century debates; it is one that assumes essential continuity between the medieval treatment of luxury as the sin of ’luxuria’ and early modern notions of the idea even as social practises of luxury explode in early seventeenth-century culture.

Literature and the Idea of Luxury in Early Modern England 1st Table of contents:

Chapter 1 Problems of Definition The Meaning of Spenser’s “Wastfull Luxuree”1

The Language of Moralized Luxury

The Pleasant Sin

Luxurious Dissipation and Useless Splendor

Luxury’s Waste Product

Chapter 2 Cleopatra’s Spoils Proto-Liberal Dimensions of Early Modern Luxury

The Myth of Cleopatra-Luxuriosa

Early Modern Appropriations

Playing Cleopatra: Redescribing Vice

Antony and Cleopatra’s “Loose Liberty”

Chapter 3 Sin City Satirizing Luxury in Early Modern London

London-Luxuriosa

London’s Decline in Growth

Satire’s Luxurious Flux

Taking Censure to Excess

Towards an “authorized means of riot” …

Chapter 4 Riotous Luxury Comical Satire and the Staging of a New Order of Things

Vices of Quality: Comical Satire and Luxury’s Redescription

Luxury: The Consumer of Wealth

Volpone’s Sport

Consuming Luxury: Volpone and Timon of Athens

A Paradox of Value

Chapter 5 Bad Markets Remoralized Luxury in Mercantile Literature

Luxuries with Benefits

Moderating Luxury for Pleasure

New Luxury Markets40

The Luxury of Things at the New Exchange

Rationalizing Luxury in The Entertainment at Britain’s Burse

Chapter 6 Particularizing Abundance Un-Economic Luxury in Roman Political Tragedy

Rethinking Excess

The Rhetoric of Riot: (Dis)Locating Luxury in Jonson’s Catiline

Aestheticizing Lack: Shakespeare’s Coriolanus

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