1st Edition
Idioms of Self Interest Credit, Identity, and Property in English Renaissance Literature
By Jill Phillips Ingram
Copyright 2007
196 Pages
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Routledge
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Routledge
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Idioms of Self-Interest uncovers an emerging social integration of economic self-interest in early modern England by examining literary representations of credit relationships in which individuals are both held to standards of communal trust and rewarded for risk-taking enterprise.
Drawing on women’s wills, merchants’ tracts, property law, mock testaments, mercantilist pamphlets and... Read more
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
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Jill Phillips Ingram
