Overview
- Demonstrates that literary interventions in emergent and shifting economic knowledge in the early modern period offers insights otherwise unavailable
- Offers an original and provocative study of the impact of economic processes on early modern epistemology
- Mediates on the entanglement of expressive form, change and exchange through wide-ranging essays by outstanding scholars
Part of the book series: Crossroads of Knowledge in Early Modern Literature (CKEML, volume 2)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Affective Changes
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Wondrous Exchanges
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Back Matter
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About this book
Placing ‘literature’ at the centre of Renaissance economic knowledge, this book offers a distinct intervention in the history of early modern epistemology. It is premised on the belief that early modern practices of change and exchange produced a range of epistemic shifts and crises, which, nonetheless, lacked a systematic vocabulary. These essays collectively tap into the imaginative kernel at the core of economic experience, to grasp and give expression to some of its more elusive experiential dimensions. The essays gathered here probe the early modern interface between imaginative and mercantile knowledge, between technologies of change in the field of commerce and transactions in the sphere of cultural production, and between forms of transaction and representation. In the process, they go beyond the specific interrelation of economic life and literary work to bring back into view the thresholds between economics on the one hand, and religious, legal and natural philosophical epistemologies on the other.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Subha Mukherji is Principle Investigator of the ERC project, Crossroads of
Knowledge in Early Modern England: the Place of Literature. She teaches English
at the University of Cambridge, UK, and at Fitzwilliam College. She has published
widely on various aspects of Renaissance English literature, interdisciplinary
approaches, and literary epistemologies.
UK. He has published on various aspects of library history and the history of the
book in the Early Modern period.
Rebecca Tomlin was a Research Associate on the Crossroads of Knowledge
project and an Early Career Fellow of the London Renaissance Seminar. Currently
working on a monograph based on her Birkbeck PhD thesis, she also has aninterest in early double-entry book-keeping. When not researching she works at
a City livery company.
GeorgeOppitz-Trotman was a Research Associate on the Crossroads of
Knowledge project. He has published on diverse aspects of Early Modern culture,
particularly as they intersect with theatre.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Economies of Literature and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
Book Subtitle: Change and Exchange
Editors: Subha Mukherji, Dunstan Roberts, Rebecca Tomlin, George Oppitz-Trotman
Series Title: Crossroads of Knowledge in Early Modern Literature
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37651-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-37650-5Published: 23 September 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-37653-6Published: 24 September 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-37651-2Published: 22 September 2020
Series ISSN: 2946-4455
Series E-ISSN: 2946-4463
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 282
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Drama, British and Irish Literature, Theatre History, History of Economic Thought/Methodology