Worlds Apart: The Market and the Theater in Anglo-American Thought, 1550–1750

ISBN-13: 9780521243223 / Angielski / Twarda / 1986 / 280 str.

Jean-Christophe Agnew

Opis

Worlds Apart traces the history of our concepts of the marketplace and the theater and the ways in which these concepts are bound together. Focusing on Britain and America in the years 1550-1750, the book discusses the forms and conventions that structured both commerce and theater. Drawing on a variety of disciplines and documents, Professor Agnew illuminates one of the most fascinating chapters in the formation of Anglo-American market culture.

Recenzje

"...an important and original work...Agnew is able to demonstrate far more powerfully than previous writers why the new forms assumed by Elizabethan and Jacobean theater were so disturbing to contemporaries and of such enduring power....succeed[s] magnificently in establishing this theater as a prime source of the metaphors out of which a discourse upon capitalism was eventually constructed." The Nation

Spis treści

Preface; Acknowledgments; Prologue: commerce and culture; 1. The threshold of exchange; 2. Another nature; 3. Artificial persons; 4. The spectacle of the market; Epilogue: confidence and culture; Notes; Index.