The culture of capital : property, cities, and knowledge in early modern England / edited by Henry S. Turner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Turner, Henry S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Land tenure--England--History--16th century.

Land tenure.

Cities and towns--England--History--16th century.

Cities and towns.

History.

England--Civilization--16th century.

England.

Civilization.

Physical Description:

x, 304 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2002.

Summary:

"The Culture of Capital" brings together leading literary critics and historians to reassess one of the defining features of early modern England-the idea of "capital." The collection reevaluates the different aspects of the concept as it emerged amidst the profound economic, social, and technological changes typical of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. As the essays move from the birth of private property and the rise of cities to the appearance of the printed book and the claims of modern science, the contributors reveal the nuanced relationships among economic value and other forms of religious, cultural, political, and intellectual value, as well as the persistence of objects, activities, and concepts that resisted becoming "capital" in a modern sense. Offering exemplary models of rigorous theoretical, literary, and historical work, the volume maps the ground for a new, enriched, interdisciplinary history of early modern England.

Contents:

1 Introduction: The Culture of Capital / Henry S. Turner 1

Part I Of Coin and Property

2 The Language of Property in Early Modern Europe / Martha C. Howell 17

3 Capital Formations / Robert S. DuPlessis 27

4 Fictions of the Early Modern English Probate Inventory / Lena Cowen Orlin 51

5 Plotting Early Modernity / Henry S. Turner 85

Part II Of Cities and Territory

6 London, Change and Exchange / Vanessa Harding 129

7 The Metropolis and the Revolution: Commercial, Urban, and Political Culture in Early Modern London / David Harris Sacks 139

8 Competing Ideologies of Commerce in Thomas Heywood's If You Know Not Me You Know Nobody, Part II / Jean E. Howard 163

9 The Pocket Books of Early Modern History / Chloe Wheatley 183

10 Walking Capitals: Donne's First Satyre / Karen Newman 203

Part III Of Culture and Its Currency

11 A New Subject for Criticism / John Guillory 223

12 The Print of Goodness / Jonathan Goldberg 231

13 Mathematics as a Social Formation Mapping the Early Modern Universal / Denise Albanese 255

14 The Value of Culture and the Disavowal of Things / Peter Stallybrass 275.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415929245

0415929253

OCLC:

48620330