LEADER 05740nam 2200817Ia 450 001 9910787527703321 005 20220304204050.0 010 $a0-8122-0219-8 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812202199 035 $a(CKB)2670000000418274 035 $a(OCoLC)859160998 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10748572 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000981365 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11533239 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000981365 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10969970 035 $a(PQKB)11197453 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse29819 035 $a(DE-B1597)449077 035 $a(OCoLC)979970085 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812202199 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442146 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10748572 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL682342 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442146 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000418274 100 $a20030714d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSick economies$b[electronic resource] $edrama, mercantilism, and disease in Shakespeare's England /$fJonathan Gil Harris 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2004 215 $a1 online resource (272 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a1-322-51060-1 311 0 $a0-8122-3773-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [235]-252) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$t1 The Asian Flu; Or, The Pathological Drama of National Economy --$t2 Syphilis and Trade: Thomas Starkey, Thomas Smith, The Comedy of Errors --$t3 Taint and Usury: Gerard Malynes, The Dutch Church Libel, The Merchant of Venice --$t4 Canker/Serpego and Value: Gerard Malynes, Troilus and Cressida --$t5 Plague and Transmigration: Timothy Bright, Thomas Milles, Volpone --$t6 Hepatitis/Castration and Treasure: Edward Misselden, Gerard Malynes, The Fair Maid of the West, The Renegado --$t7 Consumption and Consumption: Thomas Mun, The Roaring Girl --$t8 Afterword: Anthrax, Cyberworms, and the New Ethereal Economy --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aFrom French Physiocrat theories of the blood-like circulation of wealth to Adam Smith's "invisible hand" of the market, the body has played a crucial role in Western perceptions of the economic. In Renaissance culture, however, the dominant bodily metaphors for national wealth and economy were derived from the relatively new language of infectious disease. Whereas traditional Galenic medicine had understood illness as a state of imbalance within the body, early modern writers increasingly reimagined disease as an invasive foreign agent. The rapid rise of global trade in the sixteenth century, and the resulting migrations of people, money, and commodities across national borders, contributed to this growing pathologization of the foreign; conversely, the new trade-inflected vocabularies of disease helped writers to represent the contours of national and global economies. Grounded in scrupulous analyses of cultural and economic history, Sick Economies: Drama, Mercantilism, and Disease in Shakespeare's England teases out the double helix of the pathological and the economic in two seemingly disparate spheres of early modern textual production: drama and mercantilist writing. Of particular interest to this study are the ways English playwrights, such as Shakespeare, Jonson, Heywood, Massinger, and Middleton, and mercantilists, such as Malynes, Milles, Misselden, and Mun, rooted their conceptions of national economy in the language of disease. Some of these diseases-syphilis, taint, canker, plague, hepatitis-have subsequently lost their economic connotations; others-most notably consumption-remain integral to the modern economic lexicon but have by and large shed their pathological senses. Breaking new ground by analyzing English mercantilism primarily as a discursive rather than an ideological or economic system, Sick Economies provides a compelling history of how, even in our own time, defenses of transnational economy have paradoxically pathologized the foreign. 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