Praise and Paradox: Merchants and Craftsmen in Elizabethan Popular Literature

ISBN: 9780521522076 出版年：1984 页码：269 Laura Caroline Stevenson Cambridge University Press

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.