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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Netzley, Ryan, 1972- author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Rethinking the Early Modern

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Laudatory poetry, English--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

Laudatory poetry, English.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

x, 244 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Evanston. Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2024.

Summary:

"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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9780810146723

081014672X

9780810146709

0810146703

OCLC:

1399529837