skip to main content
Guest
My Research
My Account
Sign out
Sign in
This feature requires javascript
Library Search
Find Databases
Browse Search
E-Journals A-Z
E-Books A-Z
Citation Linker
Help
Language:
English
Vietnamese
This feature required javascript
This feature requires javascript
Primo Search
All Library Resources
All
Course Materials
Course Materials
Search For:
Clear Search Box
Search in:
All Library Resources
Or hit Enter to replace search target
Or select another collection:
Search in:
All Library Resources
Search in:
Print Resources
Search in:
Digital Resources
Search in:
Online E-Resources
Advanced Search
Browse Search
This feature requires javascript
Search Limited to:
Search Limited to:
Resource type
criteria input
All items
Books
Articles
Images
Audio Visual
Maps
Graduate theses
Show Results with:
criteria input
that contain my query words
with my exact phrase
starts with
Show Results with:
Search type Index
criteria input
anywhere in the record
in the title
as author/creator
in subject
Full Text
ISBN
ISSN
TOC
Keyword
Field
Show Results with:
in the title
Show Results with:
anywhere in the record
in the title
as author/creator
in subject
Full Text
ISBN
ISSN
TOC
Keyword
Field
This feature requires javascript
Sick Economies: Drama, Mercantilism, and Disease in Shakespeare's England
2004 University of Pennsylvania Press ;ISBN: 0812237730 ;ISBN: 9780812237733 ;EISBN: 0812202198 ;EISBN: 9780812202199 ;DOI: 10.9783/9780812202199 ;OCLC: 859160998 ;LCCallNum: PR658.E35H37 2004
Full text available
Citations
Cited by
View Online
Details
Recommendations
Reviews
Times Cited
External Links
This feature requires javascript
Actions
Add to My Research
Remove from My Research
E-mail
Print
Permalink
Citation
EasyBib
EndNote
RefWorks
Delicious
Export RIS
Export BibTeX
This feature requires javascript
Title:
Sick Economies: Drama, Mercantilism, and Disease in Shakespeare's England
Author:
Harris, Jonathan Gil
Subjects:
16th century
;
17th century
;
Commerce
;
Disease
;
Diseases in literature
;
DRAMA
;
Drama and the Theatre
;
Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500–1700
;
Economic conditions
;
Economics
;
Economics in literature
;
England
;
England-Economic conditions-17th century
;
English drama
;
English drama-17th century-History and criticism
;
English drama-Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600-History and criticism
;
English Literature
;
English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
;
European
;
General Scholarship and Criticism
;
Great Britain
;
Great Britain-Economic conditions-16th century
;
History
;
History and criticism
;
Knowledge
;
Language & Literature
;
LITERARY CRITICISM
;
Literature and medicine
;
Literature and medicine-England-History-16th century
;
Literature and medicine-England-History-17th century
;
Medicine
;
Mercantile system
;
Mercantile system-Great Britain-History-16th century
;
Mercantile system-Great Britain-History-17th century
;
Seventeenth Century
;
Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616
;
Shakespeare, William,-1564-1616-Knowledge and learning
;
Sixteenth Century
;
William Shakespeare
Description:
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. Grounded in scrupulous analyses of cultural and economic history,Sick Economies: Drama, Mercantilism, and Disease in Shakespeare's Englandteases out the double helix of the pathological and the economic in two seemingly disparate spheres of early modern textual production: drama and mercantilist writing. Of particular interest to this study are the ways English playwrights, such as Shakespeare, Jonson, Heywood, Massinger, and Middleton, and mercantilists, such as Malynes, Milles, Misselden, and Mun, rooted their conceptions of national economy in the language of disease. Some of these diseases-syphilis, taint, canker, plague, hepatitis-have subsequently lost their economic connotations; others-most notably consumption-remain integral to the modern economic lexicon but have by and large shed their pathological senses. Breaking new ground by analyzing English mercantilism primarily as a discursive rather than an ideological or economic system,Sick Economiesprovides a compelling history of how, even in our own time, defenses of transnational economy have paradoxically pathologized the foreign. In the process, Jonathan Gil Harris argues that what we now regard as the discrete sphere of the economic cannot be disentangled from seemingly unrelated domains of Renaissance culture, especially medicine and the theater.
Publisher:
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc
Creation Date:
2011
Format:
272
Language:
English
Identifier:
ISBN: 0812237730
ISBN: 9780812237733
EISBN: 0812202198
EISBN: 9780812202199
DOI: 10.9783/9780812202199
OCLC: 859160998
LCCallNum: PR658.E35H37 2004
Source:
Ebook Central Academic Complete
This feature requires javascript
This feature requires javascript
Back to results list
This feature requires javascript
This feature requires javascript
Searching Remote Databases, Please Wait
Searching for
in
scope:(TDTS),scope:(SFX),scope:(TDT),scope:(SEN),primo_central_multiple_fe
Show me what you have so far
This feature requires javascript
This feature requires javascript