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Reinventing liberty : nation, commerce and the historical novel from Walpole to Scott
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Year: 2016 Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

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Sir Walter Scott is often regarded as the first historical novelist. Reinventing Liberty challenges this view by returning us to the rich range of historical fiction written in the late 18th and early 19th century. For the first time placing these works in the context of British politics and British history writing, this book redefines the historical novel, revealing a genre which seeks to manage political change through historiographical experimentation. It explores how historical novelists participated in a contentious debate concerning the nature of commercial modernity, the formulation of political progress and British national identity. Ranging across well-known writers, like William Godwin, Horace Walpole and Frances Burney, to lesser-known figures, such as Cornelia Ellis Knight and Jane Porter, Reinventing Liberty uncovers how history becomes a site to rethink Britain as 'land of liberty'. Reading Scott in relation to this tradition, Reinventing Liberty demonstrates the genre's troubled role in the construction of the myth of Britain as a nation of gradual, safe political change

An anatomy of trade in medieval writing : value, consent and community
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ISBN: 9780801444128 0801444128 Year: 2006 Publisher: Ithaca ; London Cornell university press

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Cornell University Press Economics, in our modern sense of the term, was not a discipline in the Middle Ages, although the history of economic thought is often written as though it were. Lianna Farber restores the core economic concept of trade to its medieval contexts, showing that it contains three component parts: value, consent, and community. Medieval writing about trade not only relies on these elements, it presents them as unproblematic.


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Reinventing Liberty
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ISBN: 9781474402972 9781474402965 1474402976 1474402968 147442211X 9781474412896 9781474422116 1474426077 Year: 2016 Volume: *1 Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press Ltd,

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"The British historical novel has often been defined in the terms set by Walter Scott's fiction, as a reflection on a clear break between past and present. Reinventing Liberty challenges this view by returning us to the rich range of historical novels written in the late eighteenth-century. It explores how these works participated in a contentious debate concerning political change and British national identity. Ranging across well-known writers, such as William Godwin, Horace Walpole and Frances Burney, to lesser-known figures, including Cornelia Ellis Knight and Jane Porter, 'Reinventing Liberty' reveals how history becomes a site to rethink Britain as 'land of liberty' and positions Scott in relation to this tradition."--


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Literature, commerce, and the spectacle of modernity, 1750-1800
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ISBN: 1107016673 9781107016675 9781139232326 1139232320 1280485736 9781280485732 9781139233866 1139233866 9781139061278 1139061275 9781139230872 1107230497 9781107230491 1139234560 9781139234566 1139233092 9781139233095 9786613580719 6613580716 1139230875 9781139230872 1139229419 9781139229418 9781107479661 1107479665 Year: 2012 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Paul Keen explores how a consumer revolution which reached its peak in the second half of the eighteenth century shaped debates about the role of literature in a polite modern nation, and tells the story of the resourcefulness with which many writers responded to these pressures. From dream reveries which mocked their own entrepreneurial commitments, such as Oliver Goldsmith's account of selling his work at a 'Fashion Fair' on the frozen Thames, to the Microcosm's mock plan to establish 'a licensed warehouse for wit', writers insistently tied their literary achievements to a sophisticated understanding of the uncertain complexities of a modern transactional society. This book combines a new understanding of late eighteenth-century literature with the materialist and sociological imperatives of book history and theoretically inflected approaches to cultural history.


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Culture and commerce in Conrad's Asian fiction
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ISBN: 1316310426 1316323803 1316327140 1316330486 1316289788 1316333825 1107475848 1316145573 1316320448 1107093988 1316317102 Year: 2015 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Andrew Francis' Culture and Commerce in Conrad's Asian Fiction is the first book-length critical study of commerce in Conrad's work. It reveals not only the complex connections between culture and commerce in Conrad's Asian fiction, but also how he employed commerce in characterization, moral contexts, and his depiction of relations at a point of advanced European imperialism. Conrad's treatment of commerce - Arab, Chinese and Malay, as well as European - is explored within a historically specific context as intricate and resistant to traditional readings of commerce as simple and homogeneous. Through the analysis of both literary and non-literary sources, this book examines capitalism, colonialism and globalization within the commercial, political and social contexts of colonial Southeast Asia.


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The poem as green girdle : commercium in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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ISBN: 0813007666 Year: 1984 Publisher: Gainesville University press of Florida

Commerce, morality and the eighteenth-century novel
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ISBN: 0511585136 0511004605 9780511004605 0521622247 9780521622240 0521020379 9780521020374 Year: 1998 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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British culture underwent radical change in the eighteenth century with the emergence of new literary genres and new discourses of social analysis. As novelists developed new forms of fiction, writers of economic tracts and treatises sought a new language and a conceptual framework to describe the modern commercial state. In Commerce, Morality and the Eighteenth-Century Novel, Liz Bellamy argues that the evolution of the novel in eighteenth-century Britain needs to be seen in the context of the discursive conflict between economics and more traditional systems of social analysis. In a series of fresh readings of a wide range of novels, Bellamy shows how the novel contributed to the debate over public and private virtues and had to negotiate between commercial and anti-commercial ethics. The resulting choices were crucial in determining the structure as well as the moral content of the novel.


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Knights in Arms : Prose Romance, Masculinity, and Eastern Mediterranean Trade in Early Modern England, 1565-1655
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ISBN: 1442618914 9781442637498 1442637498 9781442625464 9781487511395 1442625465 9781442618916 1487511396 9781442648876 1442648872 1442625473 1442618922 Year: 2018 Publisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press,

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"Drawing from medieval chivalric culture, the prose romance was a popular early modern genre featuring stories of courtship, combat, and travel. Flourishing at the same moment as the growing English trade with the Eastern Mediterranean, prose romances adopted both Eastern settings and new conceptions of masculinity--commercial rather than chivalric, erotic rather than militant. Knights in Arms moves beyond the best-known examples of the genre, such as Philip Sidney's Arcadia, to consider the broad range of texts which featured the Eastern Mediterranean in this era. Goran Stanivukovic highlights how eroticism within prose romances, particularly homoerotic desire, facilitated commercial, cross-ethnic, and cross-cultural interactions, shaping European knowledge and conceptions of the Mediterranean and the Ottoman Empire. Through his careful examination of these lesser-known works, Stanivukovic sheds important light on early modern trade, Mediterranean politics, and the changing meaning of masculinity in an age of commercial expansion."--


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Littérature et publicité : de Balzac à Beigbeder.
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ISBN: 9782356980540 Year: 2012 Publisher: Marseille Gaussen

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Une trentaine de chercheurs retracent l'histoire des rapports entre la littérature et la publicité, des cris de Paris au Moyen Age que le roman proustien évoque, au 99 francs de F. Beigbeder, en passant par les personnages publicitaires ou encore par les remarques de Balzac, Zola ou Mallarmé sur la rhétorique du slogan ou les affiches.

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