Sick Economies: Drama, Mercantilism, and Disease in Shakespeare’s England by Jonathan Gil Harris
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Overview: From 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.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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