Idioms of Self-Interest uncovers an emerging social integration of economic self-interest in early modern England by examining literary representations of credit relationships in which individuals are both held to standards of communal trust and rewarded for risk-taking enterprise.
Drawing on women’s wills, merchants’ tracts, property law, mock testaments, mercantilist pamphlets and theatrical account books, and utilizing the latest work in economic theory and history, the book examines the history of economic thought as the history of discourse. In chapters that focus on The Merchant of Venice, Eastward Ho!, and Whitney’s Wyll and Testament, it finds linguistic and generic stress placed on an ethics of credit that allows for self-interest. Authors also register this stress as the failure of economic systems that deny self-interest, as in the overwrought paternalistic systems depicted in Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens and Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis.
The book demonstrates that Renaissance interpretive formations concerning economic behaviour were more flexible and innovative than appears at first glance, and it argues that the notion of self-interest is a coherent locus of interpretation in the early seventeenth century.
Le informazioni nella sezione "Riassunto" possono far riferimento a edizioni diverse di questo titolo.
Acknowledgments A Note on Texts 1. Introduction 2. Economies of Obligation in Eastward Ho! 3. Utopias of Paternalism: Timon of Athens and the New Atlantis 4. The Genre of Self-Interest in the Poetry of Isabella Whitney and Aemilia Lanyer 5. My Bloody Creditor: The Merchant of Venice and the Lexicon of Credit 6. Conclusion Notes. Select Bibliography. Index
Le informazioni nella sezione "Su questo libro" possono far riferimento a edizioni diverse di questo titolo.
Spese di spedizione:
EUR 3,72
In U.S.A.
Descrizione libro Condizione: New. Codice articolo ABLIING23Feb2215580206963
Descrizione libro paperback. Condizione: New. Language: ENG. Codice articolo 9780415879392
Descrizione libro Paperback / softback. Condizione: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days. Codice articolo C9780415879392
Descrizione libro PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000. Codice articolo L0-9780415879392
Descrizione libro Soft Cover. Condizione: new. Codice articolo 9780415879392
Descrizione libro Condizione: New. PRINT ON DEMAND Book; New; Fast Shipping from the UK. No. book. Codice articolo ria9780415879392_lsuk
Descrizione libro Paperback / softback. Condizione: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. Codice articolo B9780415879392
Descrizione libro Condizione: New. Codice articolo I-9780415879392
Descrizione libro Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 1st edition. 128 pages. 8.90x5.90x0.50 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand. Codice articolo __0415879396
Descrizione libro Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 1st edition. 128 pages. 8.90x5.90x0.50 inches. In Stock. Codice articolo x-0415879396