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"Although postcolonialism has emerged as one of the most significant theoretical movements in literary and cultural studies, it has paid scant attention to the importance of trade and trade relations to debates about culture. Focusing on the past two centuries, this volume investigates the links among trade, colonialism, and forms of representation, posing the question, 'What is the historical or modern relationship between economic inequality and imperial patterns of representation and reading?' Rather than dealing exclusively with a particular industry or type of industry, the contributors take up the issue of how various economies have been represented in Aboriginal art; in literature by North American, Caribbean, Portuguese, South African, First nation's, Australian, British, and Aboriginal authors; and in a diverse range of writings that includes travel diaries, missionary texts, the findings of the Leprosy Investigation Commission, early medical accounts and media representations of HIV/AIDS. Examining trade in commodities as various as illicit drugs, liquor, bananas, tourism, adventure fiction, and modern Aboriginal art, as well as cultural exchanges in politics, medicine, and literature, the essays reflect the widespread origins of the contributors themselves, who are based throughout the English-speaking world. Taken as a whole, this book contests the commonplace view promoted by some modern economists-that trade in and of itself has a leveling effect, equalising cultures, places, and peoples-demonstrating instead the ways in which commerce has created and exacerbated differences in power."--Provided by publisher.
English literature --- Colonies in literature. --- Commerce in literature. --- Capitalism in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Colonies --- Commerce --- History. --- Social aspects. --- Trade --- Economics --- Business --- Transportation --- Anti-colonialism --- Colonial affairs --- Colonialism --- Neocolonialism --- Imperialism --- Non-self-governing territories --- Colonization
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By examining the often marginal figure of the pirate (and also the hard-to-distinguish privateer), The Culture of Piracy, 1580-1630 shows how flexibly these figures served to comment on English nationalism, international relations, and contemporary politics. The first book-length treatment of the cultural impact of Renaissance piracy, this study underlines how despite its transgressive nature, piracy can be seen as a key mechanism which served to connect peoples and regions.
Thematology --- English literature --- anno 1500-1599 --- anno 1600-1699 --- Crime in literature. --- Pirates in literature. --- Politics and literature --- Privateering --- Commerce in literature. --- Corsairs --- Naval art and science --- Naval history --- Piracy --- Literature --- Literature and politics --- History and criticism. --- History --- Political aspects
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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.
Commerce in literature --- English literature --- Literature and society --- Materialism in literature --- Modernism (Literature) --- National characteristics, British, in literature --- 82 "17" --- 82:30 --- 930.85 --- 930.85 Cultuurgeschiedenis. Kultuurgeschiedenis --- Cultuurgeschiedenis. Kultuurgeschiedenis --- 82 "17" Literatuur. Algemene literatuurwetenschap--18e eeuw. Periode 1700-1799 --- Literatuur. Algemene literatuurwetenschap--18e eeuw. Periode 1700-1799 --- History and criticism --- History --- Literatuur en maatschappijwetenschappen --- Commerce in literature. --- Materialism in literature. --- National characteristics, British, in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature
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The commercial revolution of the seventeenth century deeply changed English culture. In this ambitious book, Blair Hoxby explores what that economic transformation meant to the century's greatest poet, John Milton, and to the broader literary tradition in which he worked. Hoxby places Milton's work-as well as the writings of contemporary reformers like the Levellers, poets like John Dryden, and political economists like Sir William Petty-within the framework of England's economic history between 1601 and 1724. Literary history swerved in this period, Hoxby demonstrates, as a burgeoning economic discourse pressed authors to reimagine ideas about self, community, and empire. Hoxby shows that, contrary to commonly held views, Milton was a sophisticated economic thinker. Close readings of Milton's prose and verse reveal the importance of economic ideas in a wide range of his most famous writings, from Areopagitica to Samson Agonistes to Paradise Lost.
Economics and literature --- Economics in literature. --- History --- Commerce in literature. --- Literature --- Literature and economics --- Economic aspects --- Milton, John, --- Milṭan, Jān, --- Milʹton, Dzhon, --- Милтон, Джон, --- Miltūn, Zhūn, --- Miltonus, Joannes, --- J. M. --- M., J. --- Milʹton, Īoann, --- Milton, Gioanni, --- Milton, Giovanni, --- מילטאן, יאהאן --- מילטאן, יוחנן --- מילטון, ג׳והן --- מלטן, יוחנן --- Knowledge --- Economics.
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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.
English fiction --- Commerce in literature. --- Didactic fiction, English --- Literature and morals --- Commerce --- Moral conditions in literature. --- Ethics, Modern --- Ethics in literature. --- Trade --- Economics --- Business --- Transportation --- Literature --- Morals and literature --- Ethics --- History and criticism. --- History --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Influence --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Traffic (Commerce) --- Merchants --- Arts and Humanities
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Combining psychoanalysis, structural and economic anthropology, this book treats Joseph Conrad's interests in exchange, contracts, and the condition of displacement. This is the first extended academic discussion of the social contract idea in the novelist's fiction. Furthermore, the simultaneous concentration on various fields of circulation (for example finances, dialogues, representations of women, or colonial mechanisms) invites the use of theories (Lacan, LZvi-Strauss, Simmel, Polanyi and Bataille) whose potentials for Conrad scholarship have not been exhausted (especially not in combinat
Immigrants in literature. --- Social contract in literature. --- Commerce in literature. --- Displacement (Psychology) in literature. --- Identity (Psychology) in literature. --- Psychoanalysis and literature. --- Literature and psychoanalysis --- Psychoanalytic literary criticism --- Literature --- Conrad, Joseph, --- Korzeniowski, Józef Konrad Teodor, --- Korzeniowski, Joseph Conrad Theodore, --- Konrad, Dzhozef, --- Kʻang-la-te, --- Conrad-Korzeniowski, Joseph, --- Korzeniowski, Joseph Conrad-, --- Kʻonradŭ, Josep, --- Kʻonradŭ, Chosep, --- Kʻolladŭ, Josep, --- Konrad, Dzd. --- Conrad, Józef, --- קונראד, ג׳וזף, --- קונראד, ג׳וסף --- קונרד, ג׳וזף --- קונרד, ג׳וזף, --- קונרד, יוסף --- 康拉德, --- Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowsky, Jozef Tedor, --- Konrant, Tzozeph, --- Criticism and interpretation.
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The Raft of Odysseus offers an interpretation of Homer's Odyssey rooted in the issues of overseas travel, trade and settlement that dominated the early archaic period in Greece.
Commerce in literature. --- Epic poetry, Greek --- Ethnic groups in literature. --- Ethnology in literature. --- Geography, Ancient, in literature. --- Ocean travel in literature. --- Odysseus (Greek mythology) in literature. --- Trojan War --- History and criticism. --- Literature and the war. --- Homer. --- Homer --- Knowledge --- Ethnology. --- Geography. --- Poésie épique grecque --- Odyssée (Mythologie grecque) dans la littérature --- Guerre de Troie --- Groupes ethniques dans la littérature --- Voyages en mer dans la littérature --- Anthropologie sociale et culturelle dans la littérature --- Histoire et critique --- Littérature et guerre --- Commerce in literature --- Ethnic groups in literature --- Ethnology in literature --- Geography, Ancient, in literature --- Ocean travel in literature --- Odysseus (Greek mythology) in literature --- History and criticism --- Literature and the war --- Homeros --- Homère --- Homerus. --- Homerus --- Hóiméar --- Hūmīrūs --- Gomer --- Omir --- Omer --- Omero --- Ho-ma --- Homa --- Homérosz --- האמער --- הומירוס --- הומר --- הומרוס --- هومر --- هوميروس --- 荷马 --- Ὅμηρος --- Гамэр --- Hamėr --- Омир --- Homero --- 호메로스 --- Homerosŭ --- Homērs --- Homeras --- Хомер --- ホメーロス --- ホメロス --- Гомер --- Homeri --- Hema --- Pseudo-Homer --- Pseudo Omero --- Odysseus, --- In literature. --- Odaiséas, --- Odisej, --- Odiseja, --- Odisėjas, --- Odisejs, --- Odiseo, --- Odiseu, --- Odissea, --- Odisseas, --- Odisseu, --- Odisseus, --- Odissey, --- Odusseus, --- Odüsszeusz, --- Odyseusz, --- Odyssevs, --- Odyseus, --- Odysews, --- Ódysseifur, --- Oliseus, --- Olisseus, --- Oylixeus, --- Olytteus, --- Ulises, --- Ulisse, --- Ulissi, --- Ulixes, --- Ulysse, --- Ulysses, --- Utuze, --- Οδυσσέας, --- Ὀδυσσεύς, --- Ὀλισεύς, --- Ὀλισσεύς, --- Ὀλυττεύς, --- Οὐλιξεύς, --- אודיסאוס, --- オデュッセウス, --- 奥德修斯, --- 오디세우스, --- أوديسيوس, --- Адысей, --- Одисеј, --- Одисей, --- Одіссей, --- Одиссей,
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Continuing the analysis of contemporary issues through the lens of ancient theories beyond the themes of Enduring Empire and the award-winning On Oligarchy, On Civic Republicanism explores the enduring relevance of the ancient concepts of republicanism and civic virtue to modern questions about political engagement and identity. Examining both ancient and early modern conceptions of civic republicanism, the contributors respond to the work of thinkers ranging from Plato and Aristotle to Machiavelli, Montesquieu, and Wollstonecraft. A testament to the continuing influence of the concept and the ongoing scholarly debate which surrounds it, On Civic Republicanism addresses fundamental questions regarding democratic participation, liberal democracy, and the public good. Its essays speak to the many ways in which the idea of the republic still challenges us today.
Republicanism --- History. --- Political ethics --- Républicanisme --- Morale politique --- History --- Histoire --- English prose literature --- Romances, English --- Masculinity in literature. --- Homosexuality in literature. --- Commerce in literature. --- Travel in literature. --- Geography in literature. --- Chivalry in literature. --- Topography in literature --- Voyages and travels in literature --- Masculinity (Psychology) in literature --- English literature --- History and criticism. --- Middle East --- Asia, South West --- Asia, Southwest --- Asia, West --- Asia, Western --- East (Middle East) --- Eastern Mediterranean --- Fertile Crescent --- Levant --- Mediterranean Region, Eastern --- Mideast --- Near East --- Northern Tier (Middle East) --- South West Asia --- Southwest Asia --- West Asia --- Western Asia --- Orient --- In literature. --- Ethics, Political --- Ethics in government --- Government ethics --- Political science --- Politics, Practical --- Ethics --- Civics --- Moral and ethical aspects --- 1500-1699 --- Political ethics. --- Political science. --- Republicanism. --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Social sciences --- State, The --- Political Science --- Aristotle --- Athens --- David Hume --- Democracy --- Jean-Jacques Rousseau --- Montesquieu --- Niccolò Machiavelli
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