David Glimp reveals how Renaissance England's growing tax system fundamentally reshaped its literature, influencing works by Shakespeare, Milton, Herbert, Marlowe, and More, among others. Foregrounding struggles over fiscal policy, he brings into striking relief how Renaissance authors sought to reimagine collective security and political life.
David Glimp reveals how Renaissance England's growing tax system fundamentally reshaped its literature, influencing works by Shakespeare, Milton, Herbert, Marlowe, and More, among others. Foregrounding struggles over fiscal policy, he brings into striking relief how Renaissance authors sought to reimagine collective security and political life.
A scholar of Renaissance English literature and culture, David Glimp teaches at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is the author of Increase and Multiply: Governing Cultural Reproduction in Early Modern England (2003), along with numerous works that explore relations between knowledge production, governmental practice, and literary culture in the period.
Inhaltsangabe
1. Security dilemmas: towards a fiscal poetics 2. Funding Utopia: security, fiscal policy, and humanist association 3. Marlowe's treasuries 4. Sovereignty and security dilemmas in William Shakespeare's history plays 5. George Herbert's fiscal theology: sovereignty and insecurity in the temple 6. Metasecurity dilemmas in John Milton's late poems Coda: the heart of the matter: the security of the humanities Endnotes Works cited Index.
1. Security dilemmas: towards a fiscal poetics 2. Funding Utopia: security, fiscal policy, and humanist association 3. Marlowe's treasuries 4. Sovereignty and security dilemmas in William Shakespeare's history plays 5. George Herbert's fiscal theology: sovereignty and insecurity in the temple 6. Metasecurity dilemmas in John Milton's late poems Coda: the heart of the matter: the security of the humanities Endnotes Works cited Index.
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