| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 282 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) |
| Series |
Crossroads of knowledge in early modern literature ; 2 |
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Crossroads of knowledge in early modern literature ; 2.
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| Contents |
1. Introduction -- 2. Some Economic Aspects to Private Prayer in Shakespeare -- 3. Fake News: The Marketplace of Boccalinis Parnassian Press and the History of Criticism -- 4. Emblem Books, Gift-exchange Practices and Œconomia -- 5. Vexed and Insatiable: Unfeelable Feelings and the Marketplace of Early Modern Drama -- 6. Poesies for Prizes: Queen Elizabeths Lottery, Providential Rule and 'Fair Advantages in Shakespeares Merchant of Venice -- 7. 'Her tongue hath guilded it: Speaking Economically in Thomas Heywoods Edward IV -- 8. 'To Look on Your Incestuous Eyes: Knowledge, Matter, and Desire in Richard Bromes The Queens Exchange and The New Academy, or the New Exchange -- 9. Mirifica commutatio: The Economy of Salvation in Reformation Theology -- 10. In vulcano veritas: Sir Hugh Platts Alchemical Exchanges -- 11. Freedom from Debt: The Economies of The Tempest |
| Summary |
Placing 'literature at the centre of Renaissance economic knowledge, this book offers a distinct intervention in the history of early modern epistemology. This book is premised on the belief that early modern practices of change and exchange produced a range of epistemic shifts and crises, which, nonetheless, lacked a systematic vocabulary. These essays collectively tap into the imaginative kernel at the core of economic experience, to grasp and give expression to some of its more elusive experiential dimensions. The essays gathered here probe the early modern interface between imaginative and mercantile knowledge, between technologies of change in the field of commerce and transactions in the sphere of cultural production, and between forms of transaction and representation. In the process, they go beyond the specific interrelation of economic life and literary work to bring back into view the thresholds between economics on the one hand, and religious, legal and natural philosophical epistemologies on the other |
| Notes |
1. Introduction.- 2. Some Economic Aspects to Private Prayer in Shakespeare.- 3. Fake News: The Marketplace of Boccalini's Parnassian Press and the History of Criticism.- 4. Emblem Books, Gift-exchange Practices and Œconomia.- 5. Vexed and Insatiable: Unfeelable Feelings and the Marketplace of Early Modern Drama.- 6. Poesies for Prizes: Queen Elizabeth's Lottery, Providential Rule and 'Fair Advantages' in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.- 7. 'Her tongue hath guilded it': Speaking Economically in Thomas Heywood's Edward IV.- 8. 'To Look on Your Incestuous Eyes': Knowledge, Matter, and Desire in Richard Brome's The Queen's Exchange and The New Academy, or the New Exchange.- 9. Mirifica commutatio: The Economy of Salvation in Reformation Theology.- 10. In vulcano veritas: Sir Hugh Platt's Alchemical Exchanges.- 11. Freedom from Debt: The Economies of The Tempest |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 20, 2020) |
| Subject |
Economics and literature -- History
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European literature -- Renaissance, 1450-1600 -- History and criticism
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Economics and literature
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European literature -- Renaissance
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Mukherji, Subha, editor.
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Roberts, Dunstan, editor
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Tomlin, Rebecca, editor
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Oppitz-Trotman, George, editor.
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| ISBN |
3030376516 |
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9783030376512 |
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