1st Edition

The Culture of Capital Property, Cities, and Knowledge in Early Modern England

Edited By Henry Turner Copyright 2002
    320 Pages
    by Routledge

    320 Pages
    by Routledge

    Leading literary critics and historians reassess one of the defining features of early modern England -the idea of "capital." The collection reevaluates the different aspects of the concept amidst the profound changes of the period.

    Chapter 1 Introduction, Henry S. Turner; Chapter 2 The Language of Property in Early Modern Europe, Martha C. Howell; Chapter 3 Capital Formations, Robert S. DuPlessis; Chapter 4 Fictions of the Early Modern English Probate Inventory, Lena Cowen Orlin; Chapter 5 Plotting Early Modernity, Henry S. Turner; Chapter 6 London, Change and Exchange; Chapter 7 The Metropolis and the Revolution, David Harris Sacks; Chapter 8 Competing Ideologies of Commerce in Thomas Heywood's, Jean E. Howard; Chapter 9 The Pocket Books of Early Modern History; Chapter 10 Walking Capitals, Karen Newman; Chapter 11 A New Subject for Criticism, John Guillory; Chapter 12 The Print of Goodness, Jonathan Goldberg; Chapter 13 Mathematics as a Social Formation, Denise Albanese; Chapter 14 The Value of Culture and the Disavowal of Things, Peter Stallybrass;

    Biography

    Henry S. Turner is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.