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Idols of the Marketplace: Idolatry and Commodity Fetishism in English Literature, 1580-1680. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
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David Hawkes. Idols of the Marketplace: Idolatry and Commodity Fetishism in English Literature, 1580-1680. (Early Modern Cultural Studies, 1500-1700.) New York: Palgrave. 2001. Pp. x, 294. $55.00. ISBN 0-312-24007-4.
In this wide-ranging and strikingly original book, David Hawkes traces the connections between idolatry and commodity fetishism in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. In particular, he argues that contemporaries launched an ethical critique of embryo...
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