The Poetics of Primitive Accumulation : : English Renaissance Culture and the Genealogy of Capital /

The Poetics of Primitive Accumulation : : English Renaissance Culture and the Genealogy of Capital / / Richard Halpern.

Focusing on the transition from feudal relations to early capitalism—a transition made possible by a process that Marx called "primitive accumulation"—Richard Halpern analyzes the social forces that shaped the rhetorical and literary culture of the English Renaissance. In his view, economi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Halpern, Richard,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]
©1991
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.) :; 3 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • INTRODUCTION. Marxism, New Historicism, and the Renaissance
  • PART ONE
  • CHAPTER ONE. A Mint of Phrases: Ideology and Style Production in Tudor England
  • CHAPTER TWO. Breeding Capital: Political Economy and the Renaissance
  • PART TWO
  • CHAPTER THREE. The Twittering Machine: John Skelton's Ornithology of the Early Tudor State
  • CHAPTER FOUR. Rational Kernel, Mystical Shell: Reification and Desire in Thomas More's Utopia
  • CHAPTER FIVE. Margins and Modernity: The Shepheardes Calender and the Politics of Interpretation
  • CHAPTER SIX. Historica Passio: King Lear’s Fall into Feudalism
  • Notes
  • Index

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