Literalizing Value: Poetry, Evaluation, and the Market in Marvell’s ‘The Last Instructions’
Andrew Marvell’s poetic choices, especially his tendency to literalize metaphors, reveal a dissatisfaction with the growing prevalence of market exchanges in seventeenth-century England. Although his verse satire ‘The Last Instructions to a Painter’ defends trade against the encroachments of the exc...
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Open Library of Humanities
2018-01-01
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| Series: | Marvell Studies |
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| Online Access: | https://marvell.openlibhums.org/articles/17 |