1st Edition

Desires of Credit in Early Modern Theory and Drama Commerce, Poesy, and the Profitable Imagination

By Brian Sheerin Copyright 2016
148 Pages
by Routledge

158 Pages
by Routledge

158 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
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Biography

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