McIlvenna, Una (2016) The Rich Merchant Man, or, What the Punishment of Greed Sounded Like in Early Modern English Ballads. Huntington Library Quarterly, 79 (2). pp. 279-299. ISSN 0018-7895. E-ISSN 1544-399X. (doi:10.1353/hlq.2016.0013) (KAR id:54891)
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Abstract
This paper explores how the ballad melody of the ‘Rich Merchant Man’ was fundamentally linked to a drive to educate the serving classes of seventeenth-century England in the appropriate expectations of the ever-growing merchant class, via a negative model of punitive retribution that stressed the need to be charitable and to shun greed for material wealth. In so doing, it offers a case-study of the multi-media methods by which this moral lesson of frugality and even charity – so seemingly contradictory for a merchant class that defined itself by the accumulation of wealth – could be inculcated in the youth it was attempting to train.
Item Type: | Article |
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DOI/Identification number: | 10.1353/hlq.2016.0013 |
Uncontrolled keywords: | reuse of tunes in ballads, morality lessons for apprentices, seventeenth-century conceptions of charity, execution ballads, Lillo’s The London Merchant |
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D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform M Music and Books on Music > M Music |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division of Arts and Humanities > School of English |
Depositing User: | Una McIlvenna |
Date Deposited: | 12 Apr 2016 12:59 UTC |
Last Modified: | 17 Aug 2022 12:20 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/54891 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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