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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

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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

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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

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