Sick Economies: Drama, Mercantilism, and Disease in Shakespeare's EnglandUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. júl. 17. - 272 oldal From French Physiocrat theories of the blood-like circulation of wealth to Adam Smith's "invisible hand" of the market, the body has played a crucial role in Western perceptions of the economic. In Renaissance culture, however, the dominant bodily metaphors for national wealth and economy were derived from the relatively new language of infectious disease. Whereas traditional Galenic medicine had understood illness as a state of imbalance within the body, early modern writers increasingly reimagined disease as an invasive foreign agent. The rapid rise of global trade in the sixteenth century, and the resulting migrations of people, money, and commodities across national borders, contributed to this growing pathologization of the foreign; conversely, the new trade-inflected vocabularies of disease helped writers to represent the contours of national and global economies. |
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Thomas Starkey Thomas Smith The Comedy of Errors | 29 |
Gerard Malynes The Dutch Church Libel The Merchant of Venice | 52 |
Gerard Malynes Troilus and Cressida | 83 |
Timothy Bright Thomas MillesVolpone | 108 |
Edward Misselden Gerard Malynes The Fair Maid of the West The Renegado | 136 |
Thomas Mun The Roaring Girl | 163 |
Anthrax Cyberworms and the New Ethereal Economy | 186 |
Notes | 191 |
Bibliography | 235 |
Index | 253 |
Acknowledgments | 261 |
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Sick Economies: Drama, Mercantilism, and Disease in Shakespeare's England Jonathan Gil Harris Korlátozott előnézet - 2004 |
Sick Economies: Drama, Mercantilism, and Disease in Shakespeare's England Jonathan Gil Harris Nincs elérhető előnézet - 2004 |