Economies of Literature and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe: Change and Exchange

Book Overview

1. Introduction.- 2. Some Economic Aspects to Private Prayer in Shakespeare.- 3. Fake News: The Marketplace of Boccalini's Parnassian Press and the History of Criticism.- 4. Emblem Books, Gift-exchange Practices and OEconomia.- 5. Vexed and Insatiable: Unfeelable Feelings and the Marketplace of Early Modern Drama.- 6. Poesies for Prizes: Queen Elizabeth's Lottery, Providential Rule and 'Fair Advantages' in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.- 7. 'Her tongue hath guilded it': Speaking Economically in Thomas Heywood's Edward IV.- 8. 'To Look on Your Incestuous Eyes': Knowledge, Matter, and Desire in Richard Brome's The Queen's 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 Platt's Alchemical Exchanges.- 11. Freedom from Debt: The Economies of The Tempest.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030376532
• ISBN13: 9783030376536
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"