Global traffic
Subtitle: discourses and practices of trade in English literature and culture from 1550 to 1700
By: edited by Barbara Sebek and Stephen Deng.
Contributors: Sebek, Barbara, 1964-; Deng, Stephen, 1970-
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Early modern cultural studies
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9780230604735
Subjects: English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism; Commerce in literature; Economics in literature; Globalization in literature; Great Britain -- Commerce -- History -- 16th century; Great Britain -- Commerce -- History -- 17th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "The common market of all the world" : English theater, the global system, and the Ottoman Empire in the early modern period / Daniel Vitkus; title: "Ill luck, ill luck?" : risk and hazard in The merchant of Venice / Ian MacInnes; title: Salvation, social struggle, and the ideology of the company merchant : Baptist Goodall's The tryall of travell (1630) / David J. Morrow; title: The panoramic view in mercantile thought : or, A merchant's map of Cymbeline / Bradley D. Ryner; title: "Not every man has the luck to go to Corinth" : accruing exotic capital in The Jew of Malta and Volpone / Lea Knudsen Allen; title: "Absent, weak, or unserviceable" : the East India Company and the domestic economy in The launching of the Mary, or, The seaman's honest wife / Ann Christensen; title: The flowers of Paradise : botanical trade in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England / Amy L. Tigner; title: Inhaling the alien : race and tobacco in early modern England / Kristen G. Brookes; title: "A foreigner by birth" : the life of Indian cloth in the early modern English marketplace / Gitanjali Shahani; title: The tempest and the Newfoundland cod fishery / Edward M. Test; title: "Mysteries of commerce" : influence, licensing, censorship, and the literature of long-distance travel / Matthew Day; title: Global œconomy : Ben Jonson's The staple of news and the ethics of mercantilism / Stephen Deng; title: Afterword : accommodating change / Jean E. Howard.