Idioms of Self Interest: Credit, Identity, and Property in English Renaissance Literature

ISBN-13: 9780415978422 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 194 str.

Jill Phillips Ingram

Opis

Demonstrating that Renaissance interpretive formations concerning economic behaviour were flexible and innovative, this book argues that the notion of self-interest was a coherent locus of interpretation in the early seventeenth century.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Jill Phillips Ingram