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'Idols of the Marketplace constitutes an original and fully historicized analysis of six important early modern writers, along with.. the early Christian and early modern debate over idolatry, the early modern debates over value and trade, and the antitheatrical controversy. The boldness lies in its willingness to entertain and examine the idea that early modern defences of intrinsic value and teleology may in fact contain a politically and ethically useful theory of society...Professor Hawkes's prose is clear and accessible without being reductive'. - From reader's report by James Holstrum
'Idols of the Market Place is an excellent book - provocative, coherent and full of insight.' - Times Literary Supplement
'...provocative and fascinating readings of early modern texts by a knowledgeable and astute author.' - Laura Lunger Knoppers, Albion
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Book Title: Idols of the Marketplace
Book Subtitle: Idolatry and Commodity Fetishism in English Literature, 1580–1680
Authors: David Hawkes
Series Title: Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780312292690
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: David Hawkes 2001
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-312-24007-3Published: 18 October 2001
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-38715-1Published: 18 October 2001
eBook ISBN: 978-0-312-29269-0Published: 11 October 2001
Series ISSN: 2634-5897
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5900
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 294
Topics: Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Poetry and Poetics, British and Irish Literature