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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Stevenson, Laura Caroline, 1946- Praise and paradox. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1984 (OCoLC)801245393 |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Laura Caroline Stevenson |
ISBN: | 0521265061 9780521265065 0521522072 9780521522076 |
OCLC Number: | 11291454 |
Notes: | Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--Yale University, 1974. |
Description: | xiii, 252 pages ; 23 cm. |
Contents: | Acknowledgements; Prefactory note; Introduction: praise and paradox; Part I. Elizabethan Popular Literature: 1. Elizabethan popular literature and its economic context; 2. The popular Elizabethan authors; 3. The popular Elizabethan audience; Part II. The Business in Armour: 4. Principal citizens and chief yeomen; 5. The merchant as usurer: a stock image in decline; 6. The merchant as knight, courtier and prince; 7. Lessons in diligence and thrift; Part III. The Gentle Craftsman: 8. Clown and rebel: the craftsman as one of 'the fourth sort of people'; 9. The gentle craftsman in Arcadia; Appendices; Index. |
Series Title: | Past and present publications. |
Responsibility: | Laura Caroline Stevenson. |
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