1st Edition
Literature and the Idea of Luxury in Early Modern England
Problems of definition: the meaning of Spenser's 'wastfull luxuree'. Cleopatra's spoils: proto-liberal dimensions of early modern luxury. Sin City: satirizing luxury in early modern London. Riotous luxury: comical satire and the staging of a new order of things. Bad markets: remoralized luxury in mercantile literature. Particularizing abundance: Un-economic luxury in Roman political tragedy.
Biography
Alison V. Scott is a senior lecturer in the School of English, Media Studies, and Art History at The University of Queensland, Australia. She is also the author of Selfish Gifts: The Politics of Exchange and English Courtly Literature, 1580-1628.
"[Scott] provides a new aspect to familiar texts that may help scholars better to understand the literature that has survived from the period."
- Sybil M. Jack, The University of Sydney in Parergon: Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, volume 33.1 (2016).
