Sick Economies: Drama, Mercantilism, and Disease in Shakespeare's England

Jonathan Gil Harris

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2004

Sick Economies

Drama, Mercantilism, and Disease in Shakespeare's England

Jonathan Gil Harris

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812202199

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About this book

Sick Economies: Drama, Mercantilism, and Disease in Shakespeare's England teases out the double helix of the pathological and the economic in two seemingly disparate spheres of early modern textual production: drama and mercantilist writing.

Author / Editor information

Jonathan Gil Harris is Professor of English at George Washington University and the author of Foreign Bodies and the Body Politic: Discourses of Social Pathology in Early Modern England.

Reviews

"Sick Economies, wholeheartedly committed to the recovery of noncanonical early modern writing, shows what can happen when a keen literary intelligence is applied to nonliterary texts. The result is a truly interdisciplinary and refreshingly readable book."—Times Literary Supplement

"This book offers great insight into the Renaissance discourses of the body, the emergence of mercantile theory, and early modern drama."—Seventeenth-Century News

"Harris has successfully argued a decidedly unique angle of interpretation. What may have initially struck the reader as an impossibly broad scope of inquiry is revealed, through rigorous textual analysis, as an intriguing interdisciplinary perspective that will certainly impact subsequent scholarship."—Comitatus

"In this important book Harris explores the early modern discourse of mercantilism, tracing its merger with the discourse of bodily illness."—Choice

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
1 The Asian Flu; Or, The Pathological Drama of National Economy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2 Syphilis and Trade: Thomas Starkey, Thomas Smith, The Comedy of Errors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
3 Taint and Usury: Gerard Malynes, The Dutch Church Libel, The Merchant of Venice Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	52
4 Canker/Serpego and Value: Gerard Malynes, Troilus and Cressida Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
5 Plague and Transmigration: Timothy Bright, Thomas Milles, Volpone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	108
6 Hepatitis/Castration and Treasure: Edward Misselden, Gerard Malynes, The Fair Maid of the West, The Renegado Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	136
7 Consumption and Consumption: Thomas Mun, The Roaring Girl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
8 Afterword: Anthrax, Cyberworms, and the New Ethereal Economy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	186
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261

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Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 272
Keywords: Literature; Cultural Studies; Cultural Studies; Medieval and Renaissance Studies

eBook

Published: July 17, 2013
ISBN: 9780812202199