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Arts Of Possession: The Middle English Household Imaginary
D. Vance Smith
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Description for Arts Of Possession: The Middle English Household Imaginary
Paperback. Series: Medieval Cultures S. Num Pages: 280 pages, 19 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3H; DSBB; HBJD1; HBLC; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 148 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
Exposes the centrality of the household to cultural practices of the medieval period.
An innovative work of both economic anthropology and literary history, Arts of Possession draws on philosophical, theoretical, literary, historical, and archival sources and insights to situate the household at the center of the social and cultural imagination of fourteenth-century England.
D. Vance Smith argues that in a period commonly represented as precapitalist there actually existed a sophisticated economic discourse-and this discourse underlies common forms of representation and the writing of literary texts. His work provides a new historiography of capital and of the development of the relation between ... Read more Show LessProduct Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Series
Medieval Cultures S.
Number of Pages
340
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816639519
SKU
V9780816639519
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About D. Vance Smith
D. Vance Smith is associate professor of English at Princeton University. He is the author of The Book of the Incipit: Beginnings in the Fourteenth Century (Minnesota, 2001).
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