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Economies of literature and knowledge in early modern Europe : change and exchange /

Placing 'literature at the center 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, whic...

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Other Authors: Mukherji, Subha (Editor), Roberts, Dunstan (Editor), Tomlin, Rebecca (Editor), Oppitz-Trotman, George (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020].
Series:Crossroads of knowledge in early modern literature ; 2.
Subjects:
Economics and literature > History.
European literature > Renaissance, 1450-1600 > History and criticism.
Table of 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.