Security, Fiscal Policy, and Sovereignty in Renaissance English Literature

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

Av David Glimp, David (University of Colorado Boulder) Glimp

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Taxation was a central challenge for England's rulers during the Renaissance, and consequently became a major theme for some of the period's greatest writers. Through close readings of works by Thomas More, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, George Herbert, and John Milton, David Glimp reveals how these writers and others grappled with the period's expanding systems of taxation and changing understandings of collective security. Such debates involved questions of political obligation, what it meant to be safe, and the nature of political community itself. Challenging dominant understandings of Renaissance sovereignty, Glimp explores in greater detail than ever before how early modern authors thought about and engaged the fiscal realities of government. From Utopia to Paradise Lost, his groundbreaking analysis illuminates how Renaissance literature addressed concerns about fiscal policy, state power, and collective wellbeing and will appeal to scholars of Renaissance literature, political theory, and economic history alike.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-09-18
Mått152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt570 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor282
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781009618809

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1. Security dilemmas: towards a fiscal poetics; 2. Funding Utopia: security, fiscal policy, and humanist association; 3. Marlowe's treasuries; 4. Sovereignty and security dilemmas in William Shakespeare's history plays; 5. George Herbert's fiscal theology: sovereignty and insecurity in the temple; 6. Metasecurity dilemmas in John Milton's late poems; Coda: the heart of the matter: the security of the humanities; Endnotes; Works cited; Index.

'Nothing is certain but death and taxes, yet David Glimp finds that these certainties are always accompanied by a perplexing uncertainty especially amenable to literature. His book traces and renders legible the large-scale social question embedded in minutiae of taxation and state security, showing how Marlowe, Herbert, and Milton were all, in their own ways, drawing upon fiscal language to ask what the common good might mean.' Christopher Warley, Professor of English, University of Toronto