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Author:
Ingram, Jill Phillips.
Title:
Idioms of self-interest : credit, identity, and property in English Renaissance literature / Jill Phillips Ingram.
Publisher:
Routledge,
Copyright Date:
c2006
Description:
xi, 182 p. ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Economics in literature.
English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
Authors, English--Early modern, 1500-1700--Political and social views.
Self-interest
Credit--Moral and ethical aspects.
Obligations (Law)
Debtor and creditor
Property in literature
Social control in literature.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-178) and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- Economies of obligation in Eastward ho -- Utopias of paternalism : Timon of Athens and The new Atlantis -- The genre of self-interest in the poetry of Isabella Whitney and Aemilia Lanyer -- "My bloody creditor" : The merchant of Venice and the lexicon of credit -- Conclusion.
Series:
Literary criticism and cultural theory
ISBN:
9780415978422 (alk. paper)
0415978424 (alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)70131105
LCCN:
2006019290
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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