Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700

Woodbridge, L.

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 schemes to The Merchant of Venice .

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2004-01-29

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349527304

DOI: 10.1057/9781403982469

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 281