Idioms of Self Interest: Credit, Identity, and Property in English Renaissance Literature

by Jill Phillips Ingram

Book Overview

Idioms of Self-Interest uncovers an emerging social integration of economic self-interest in early modern England by examining literary representations of credit relationships in which individuals are both held to standards of communal trust and rewarded for risk-taking enterprise.

Drawing on women's wills, merchants' tracts, property law, mock testaments, mercantilist pamphlets and theatrical account books, and utilizing the latest work...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415879396
• ISBN13: 9780415879392
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"