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Praise and paradox : merchants and craftsmen in Elizabethan popular literature

Praise and Paradox explores the relationship of language, literary structure, and social ideology in the popular Elizabethan literature that praised merchants, industrialists and craftsmen. This literature relied on paradoxical new stereotypes because its authors had no language or ideology that enabled them to separate bourgeois values from the old aristocratic ones.
Print Book, English, 1984
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [Cambridgeshire], 1984
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xiii, 252 pages ; 23 cm.
9780521265065, 9780521522076, 0521265061, 0521522072
11291454
Acknowledgements; Prefactory note; Introduction: praise and paradox; Part I. Elizabethan Popular Literature: 1. Elizabethan popular literature and its economic context; 2. The popular Elizabethan authors; 3. The popular Elizabethan audience; Part II. The Business in Armour: 4. Principal citizens and chief yeomen; 5. The merchant as usurer: a stock image in decline; 6. The merchant as knight, courtier and prince; 7. Lessons in diligence and thrift; Part III. The Gentle Craftsman: 8. Clown and rebel: the craftsman as one of 'the fourth sort of people'; 9. The gentle craftsman in Arcadia; Appendices; Index.
Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--Yale University, 1974