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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Harris, Jonathan Gil
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.
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.