Sick Economies : Drama, Mercantilism, and Disease in Shakespeare's England /
The author integrates feminism, materialist criticism, and legal history to offer a look at how women's management of household goods became an important site of female struggle and resistance to England's patrilinear property regime.
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
2004.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. The Asian flu; or, the pathological drama of national economy
- 2. Syphilis and trade: Thomas Starkey, Thomas Smith, The comedy of errors
- 3. Taint and usury: Gerard Malynes, the Dutch church libel, The merchant of Venice
- 4. Canker/Serpego and value: Gerard Malynes, Troilus and Cressida
- 5. Plague and transmigration: Timothy Bright, Thomas Milles, Volpone
- 6. Hepatitis/castration and treasure: Edward Misselden, Gerard Malynes, The fair maid of the west, the Renegado
- 7. Consumption and consumption: Thomas Mun, the roaring girl
- 8. Afterword: anthrax, cyberworms, and the new ethereal economy.