Desires of Credit in Early Modern Theory and Drama

Commerce, Poesy, and the Profitable Imagination

Brian Sheerin (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

148 Seiten

2019
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-17566-5 (ISBN)

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Desires of Credit in Early Modern Theory and Drama traces the near-simultaneous rise of economic theory, literary criticism, and public theater in London at the turn of the seventeenth century, and posits that connecting all three is a fascination with creating something out of nothing simply by acting as if it were there. Author Brian Sheerin contends that the motivating force behind both literary and economic inquiry at this time was the same basic quandary about the human imagination--specifically, how investments of belief can produce tangible consequences. Just as speculators were realizing the potency of collective imagination on economic circulation, readers and dramatists were becoming newly introspective about whether or not the 'lies' of literature could actually be morally 'profitable.' Could one actually benefit by taking certain fictions 'seriously'? Each of the five chapters examines a different dimension of this question by highlighting a particular dramatization of economic trust on the Renaissance stage, in plays by Marlowe, Shakespeare, Heywood, Dekker, and Jonson. The book fills a gap in current scholarship by keeping economic and dramatic interests rigorously grounded in early modern literary criticism, but also by emphasizing the productive nature of debt in a way that resonates with recent economic sociology.

Brian Sheerin is Assistant Professor of Renaissance Literature at St. Edward's University, USA.

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Erscheinungsdatum	21.01.2019
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	249 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-367-17566-5 / 0367175665
ISBN-13	978-0-367-17566-5 / 9780367175665
Zustand	Neuware