On Demand

Name: On Demand
Brand: Stanford University Press
SKU: 9780804738569
Price: 80.52 EUR
Availability: InStock

Writing for the Market in Early Modern England

Автор: David J. Baker

Език:

Корици: С твърди корици

Издател: Stanford University Press

Наличност: Външен склад

Изпращаме след 9-15 дни

80.52 € 157.48 лв

In early modern England, while moralists railed against the theater as wasteful and depraved and inf...

Информация за книгата

Автор

David J. Baker

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С твърди корици

Издадена

2003

страници

224

EAN

9780804738569

ISBN

0804738564

Enbook ID

04717103

Издател

Stanford University Press

Теглоt

432

Размери

161 x 238 x 20

Пълно описание

In early modern England, while moralists railed against the theater as wasteful and depraved and inflation whittled away at the value of wages, people attended the theater in droves. "On Demand" draws on recent economic history and theory to account for this puzzling consumer behavior. He shows that during this period demand itself, with its massed acquisitive energies, transformed the English economy. Over the long sixteenth-century consumption burgeoned, though justifications for it lagged behind. People were in a curious predicament: they practiced consumption on a mass scale but had few acceptable reasons for doing so. In the literary marketplace, authors became adept at accommodating such contradictions fashioning works that spoke to self-divided consumers: Thomas Nashe castigated and satiated them at the same time. William Shakespeare satirized credit problems. Ben Jonson investigated the problems of global trade, and Robert Burton enlisted readers in a project of economic betterment.

Може също да ви хареса