Sebek / Deng Global Traffic

Discourses and Practices of Trade in English Literature and Culture from 1550 to 1700
2008
ISBN: 978-0-230-61181-8
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 291 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700

This remarkable collection investigates the relations between literature and the economy in the context of the unprecedented expansion of early modern England s long distance trade. Studying a range of genres and writers, both familiar and lesser known, the essays offer a new history of globalization as a complex of unevenly developing cultural, discursive, and economic phenomena. While focusing on how long distance trade contributed to England s economic growth and cultural transformation, the collection taps into scholarly interest in race, gender, travel and exploration, domesticity, mapping, the state and emergent nationalism, and proto-colonialism in the early modern period.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sebek, B.

Deng, S.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Global Traffic: An Introduction; B.Sebek 'Common Market of All the World': English Theater, the Global System, and the Ottoman Empire in the Early Modern Period; D.Vitkus 'Ill luck, Ill luck?': Risk and Hazard in The Merchant of Venice; I.MacInnes Salvation, Social Struggle, and the Ideology of the Company Merchant: Baptist Goodall's The Tryall of Travell (1630); D.Morrow The Panoramic View in Mercantile Thought: Or, A Merchant's Map of Cymbeline; B.D.Ryner 'Not Every Man Has the Luck to go to Corinth': Accruing Exotic Capital in The Jew of Malta and Volpone; L.K.Allen 'Absent, Weak, or Unserviceable': The East India Company and the Domestic Economy in The Launching of the Mary, or The Seaman's Honest Wife; A.Christensen The Flowers of Paradise: Botanical Trade in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century England; A.L.Tigner Inhaling the Alien: Race and Tobacco in Early Modern England; K.Brookes 'Foreigner by Birth': The Life of Indian Cloth in the Early Modern English Marketplace; G.Shahani The Tempest and the Newfoundland Cod Fishery; E.M.Test 'Mysteries of Commerce': Influence, Licensing, Censorship and the Literature of Long-Distance Travel; M.Day Global Economy: Ben Jonson's The Staple of News and the Ethics of Mercantilism; S.Deng Afterword: Accommodating Change; J.Howard

Über Autor(innen)

Barbara Sebek is Associate Professor of English at Colorado State University, USA.Stephen Deng is Assistant Professor of English at Michigan State University, USA.