Mukherji / Roberts / Tomlin Economies of Literature and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe

Change and Exchange
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-030-37651-2
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 282 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Progress in Mathematics

Placing ‘literature’ at the centre of Renaissance economic knowledge, this book offers a distinct intervention in the history of early modern epistemology. It 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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mukherji, Subha

Roberts, Dunstan

Tomlin, Rebecca

Oppitz-Trotman, George

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

Subha Mukherji is Principle Investigator of the ERC project, Crossroads ofKnowledge in Early Modern England: the Place of Literature. She teaches Englishat the University of Cambridge, UK, and at Fitzwilliam College. She has publishedwidely on various aspects of Renaissance English literature, interdisciplinaryapproaches, and literary epistemologies.
Dunstan Roberts is a Praeceptor in English at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge,
UK. He has published on various aspects of library history and the history of thebook in the Early Modern period.Rebecca Tomlin was a Research Associate on the Crossroads of Knowledgeproject and an Early Career Fellow of the London Renaissance Seminar. Currently
working on a monograph based on her Birkbeck PhD thesis, she also has an
interest in early double-entry book-keeping. When not researching she works ata City livery company.GeorgeOppitz-Trotman was a Research Associate on the Crossroads ofKnowledge project. He has published on diverse aspects of Early Modern culture,particularly as they intersect with theatre.