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Literature and the Idea of Luxury in Early Modern England

By: Alison V. Scott

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Literature and the Idea of Luxury in Early Modern England

By: Alison V. Scott

Exploring the idea of luxury in relation to a series of neighboring but distinct concepts including avarice, excess, licentiousness, indulgence, vitality, abundance, and waste, this study combines intellectual and cultural historical methods to trace discontinuities in luxury’s conceptual development in seventeenth-century England. The central argument is that, as ’luxury’ was gradually Englished in seventeenth-century culture, it developed political and aesthetic meanings that connect with eighteenth-century debates even as they oppose their so-called demoralizing thrust. Alison Scott closely examines the meanings of luxury in early modern English culture through literary and rhetorical uses of the idea. She argues that, while ’luxury’ could and often did denote merely ’lust’ or ’licentiousness’ as it tends to be glossed by modern editors of contemporary works, its cultural lexicon was in fact more complex and fluid than that at this time. Moreover, that fuller understanding of its plural and shifting meanings-as they are examined here-has implications for the current intellectual history of the idea in Western thought. The existing narrative of luxury’s conceptual development is one of progressive upward transformation, beginning with the rise of economic liberalism amidst eighteenth-century debates; it is one that assumes essential continuity between the medieval treatment of luxury as the sin of ’luxuria’ and early modern notions of the idea even as social practises of luxury explode in early seventeenth-century culture.

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Routledge

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1317104374

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9781317104377

Selfish Gifts

The Politics of Exchange and English Courtly Literature, 1580-1628

By: Alison V. Scott

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Selfish Gifts

The Politics of Exchange and English Courtly Literature, 1580-1628

By: Alison V. Scott

Selfish Gifts examines how early modern clients moved quickly and strategically to assimilate the language of competition and equality, characteristic of an emerging market economy, within their existing discourses of gift exchange, in order to maximize the rewards they might induce from an increasingly diverse group of patrons."--Jacket.

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316

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Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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0838640826

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9780838640821

Human Rights and Criminal Justice

By: Ben Emmerson,Andrew Ashworth,Alison Macdonald,Mark A. Summers

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Human Rights and Criminal Justice

By: Ben Emmerson,Andrew Ashworth,Alison Macdonald,Mark A. Summers

A survey of Czech business law, tax and accounting regulations. The political, legal and economic systems of the Republic are outlined.

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1133

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Sweet & Maxwell

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1847039111

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9781847039118

Medical Law Handbook

The Epidemiologically Based Needs Assessment Reviews, Low Back Pain - Second Series

By: Raj Mohindra,Alison Davies

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Medical Law Handbook

The Epidemiologically Based Needs Assessment Reviews, Low Back Pain - Second Series

By: Raj Mohindra,Alison Davies

Law touches more and more upon the daily practice of medical professionals. This trend continues as modern medicine delivers more therapies, and modern society demands increased rights for individuals and increased accountability for medical professionals. This handbook is written by a practising physician and qualified lawyer to provide an accessible text that allows medical professionals to grasp the legal rules that impact on their daily practice quickly and clearly. The handbook format and clear numbered paragraphs aid speed of use, and legal references are matched to short case summaries and legal statute summaries throughout to provide a solid evidence base. The work enables practitioners to clarify legal questions in all key areas in moments. It concisely and comprehensively covers the core topics including confidentiality, consent, and negligence, and clarifies particularly complex issues such as abortion, assisted reproduction, surrogacy, human tissue and the end of life. This book is an essential reference for medical professionals at every level and in every setting, from students to consultants. 'The purpose of this book is to provide an accessible resource for busy medical professionals. The text assumes no knowledge of law. The medical factual details that are often frustratingly missing from legal textbooks are retained. The point is to locate the cases not just on the legal maps but also upon the medical maps.' Raj Mohindra in the Introduction

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293

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CRC Press

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1315343193

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9781315343198

Family Law, Gender and the State

Text, Cases and Materials

By: Alison Diduck,Felicity Kaganas

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Family Law, Gender and the State

Text, Cases and Materials

By: Alison Diduck,Felicity Kaganas

The third edition of this work on family law, comprising text, cases and materials, provides not only an explication of legal principle but also explores, primarily from a feminist perspective, some of the assumptions about, and constructions of, gender, sexual orientation, class and culture that underlie the law. It examines the ideology of the family and, in particular, the role of the law in contributing to and reproducing that ideology. Structured around the themes of equality, welfare, and family privacy, the book aims to offer the benefits of a textbook while also giving students a wide-ranging set of materials for classroom discussion. As well as providing a firm grounding in family law, the text sets the law in its social and historical context and encourages a critical approach by students to the subject. It provides an ideal introduction to family law for undergraduates, but will be equally helpful for postgraduate students of family law for whom it provides a challenging selection of materials set within a theoretical framework rich in ideas and arguments. Review of the second edition: 'Diduck and Kaganas examine legal developments to shed light on society, principally by investigating the ways in which family law constructs and regulates family life and responsibilities. Theirs is an important and ambitious book that aims ultimately at a feminist restatement of family law. .... [T]he [book] is written and referenced in such depth that it is a useful resource for legal as well as social science researchers at all levels, whether looking for theoretical inspiration or drawing up a literature review. The range of diverse sources that Diduck and Kaganas draw on is impressive: they seem to have included every bit of material that helps feminists make sense of family law. There is a well-pitched selection of further reading of such material at the end of each chapter. What's more, they undersell themselves by describing their book as "Text, Cases and Materials", because they have woven by far the largest proportion of the cases and materials into the text.' Helen Reece, Times Higher Education, May 2007. Reviews of first edition: 'A stimulating work which attempts to situate family law in its social, historical and political context. Its appeal should not be confined to family law students, as its commitment to a critical and analytical approach offers insights and ideas with broader significance.' Mary Childs, Child and Family Law Quarterly, September 2002 'The arguments are provocative, the analysis is stimulating and the materials amassed strongly support the authors' aim to question the "axiomatic status of what is traditionally designated as the family".' Fiona E Raitt, Infant and Child Development, September 2002 'It is not often that one can say of a textbook in Law that it "makes interesting reading" with quite the enthusiasm that can be expressed for this text. This new publication offers something that few textbooks seem to offer - a book you CAN open up virtually anywhere and find an interesting piece on almost any aspect of the broad family law spectrum.' Penny Booth, The Law Teacher, September 2002 'All the major themes in feminist and constructionist perspectives in family law are presented together with a wealth of readings and extensive references. As a teaching manual, it is excellent - a coherent feminist perspective across the entire range of family law' Marty Slaughter, Feminist Legal Studies, July 2003

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700

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1847318932

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9781847318930

British Government and the Constitution

Text and Materials

By: Alison L. Young

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British Government and the Constitution

Text and Materials

By: Alison L. Young

Places constitutional law in its legal, historical and political context using contemporary examples.

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1099

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Cambridge University Press

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1108707386

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9781108707381

Judging the Image

Art, Value, Law

By: Alison Young

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Judging the Image

Art, Value, Law

By: Alison Young

This book extends the cultural turn in legal and criminological studies by interrogating our responses to the image. It provides a space to think through problems of ethics, social authority and the legal imagination.

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205

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Psychology Press

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041530184X

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9780415301848

Literature and the Idea of Luxury in Early Modern England

By: Dr Alison V Scott

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Literature and the Idea of Luxury in Early Modern England

By: Dr Alison V Scott

Exploring the idea of luxury in relation to a series of neighbouring but distinct concepts including avarice, licentiousness, indulgence, vitality, abundance and waste, this study combines intellectual and cultural historical methods to trace discontinuities in the conceptual development of extravagance in seventeenth-century England. Scott traces how ‘luxury’ developed encompassing meanings that connect with eighteenth-century debates even as they oppose their so-called demoralizing thrust.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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0754664031

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9780754664031

Book's by Alison V. Scott

Literature and the Idea of Luxury in Early Modern England

Literature and the Idea of Luxury in Early Modern England

Selfish Gifts

Selfish Gifts

Human Rights and Criminal Justice

Human Rights and Criminal Justice

Medical Law Handbook

Medical Law Handbook

Family Law, Gender and the State

Family Law, Gender and the State

British Government and the Constitution

British Government and the Constitution

Judging the Image

Judging the Image

Literature and the Idea of Luxury in Early Modern England

Literature and the Idea of Luxury in Early Modern England

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