Global Traffic: Discourses and Practices of Trade in English Literature and Culture from 1550 to 1700 (Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500â "1700)

ISBN 10: 0230604730 / ISBN 13: 9780230604735

Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2008

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Global Traffic: Discourses and Practices of Trade in English Literature and Culture from 1550 to 1700 (Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500â "1700)
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0230604730
• ISBN 13: 9780230604735
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Fine

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Synopsis

This remarkable collection investigates the relations between literature and the economy in the context of the unprecedented expansion of early modern England s long distance trade. Studying a range of genres and writers, both familiar and lesser known, the essays offer a new history of globalization as a complex of unevenly developing cultural, discursive, and economic phenomena. While focusing on how long distance trade contributed to England s economic growth and cultural transformation, the collection taps into scholarly interest in race, gender, travel and exploration, domesticity, mapping, the state and emergent nationalism, and proto-colonialism in the early modern period.

About the Author

Barbara Sebek is Associate Professor of English at Colorado State University, USA.
Stephen Deng is Assistant Professor of English at Michigan State University, USA.