Money and the Age of Shakespeare: Essays in New Economic Criticism (Early Modern Cultural Studies)
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Hardcover. Editor(s): Woodbridge, Linda. Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies Series. Num Pages: 294 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 438.
In this collection literary scholars, theorists and historians deploy new economic techniques to illuminate English Renaissance literature in fresh ways. Contributors variously explore poetry's precarious perch between gift and commodity; the longing for family in The Comedy of Errors as symbolically expressing the alienating pressures of mercantilism; Measure for Measure 's representation of singlewomen and the feminization of poverty; the collision between two views of money in a possible collaboration between Shakespeare and Middleton; the cultural spread of an accounting mentality and quantitative thinking; and money as it crosses the frontier between price and pricelessness, and from early bodily-injury insurance ... Read more
In this collection literary scholars, theorists and historians deploy new economic techniques to illuminate English Renaissance literature in fresh ways. Contributors variously explore poetry's precarious perch between gift and commodity; the longing for family in The Comedy of Errors as symbolically expressing the alienating pressures of mercantilism; Measure for Measure 's representation of singlewomen and the feminization of poverty; the collision between two views of money in a possible collaboration between Shakespeare and Middleton; the cultural spread of an accounting mentality and quantitative thinking; and money as it crosses the frontier between price and pricelessness, and from early bodily-injury insurance ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Series
Early Modern Cultural Studies Series
Number of Pages
281
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9781403963079
SKU
V9781403963079
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99-15
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DOUGLAS BRUSTER Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, USA BARBARA CORRELL Teaches Renassiance Literature and Cultural Studies at Cornell University, New York, USA ROBERT DARCY Assistant Professor of English at Utica College, New York, USA VALERIE FORMAN Assistant Professor of Renaissance and Seventeeth-Century Literature and Culture at the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA DAVID HAWKES Associate Professor ... Read more
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