Worlds Apart: The Market and the Theater in Anglo-American Thought, 1550-1750Drawing on a variety of disciplines and documents, Professor Agnew illuminates one of the most fascinating chapters in the formations of Anglo-American market culture. Worlds Apart traces the history of our concepts of the marketplace and the theatre and the ways in which these concepts are bound together. Focusing on Britain and America in the years 1550 to 1750, the book discusses the forms and conventions that structured both commerce and theatre. As marketing practice broke free of its traditional boundaries and restraints, it challenged longstanding popular assumptions about the constituents of value, the nature of identity, the signs of authenticity, and the limits of liability. New exchange relations bred new legal and commercial fictions to authorise them, but they also bred new doubts about the precise grounds upon which the self and its 'interests' were to be represented. Those same doubts, Professor Agnew shows, animated the theatre as well. As actors and playwrights shifted from ecclesiastical and civic drama to professional entertainments, they too devised authenticating fictions, fictions that effectively replicated the bewildering representational confusions of the new 'placeless market'. |
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... in New York City ; today , an actor has become president by claiming allegiance to the very traditions that would have categorically condemned him as a hypocrite a century earlier . To this public change of Preface xiii.
... in New York City ; today , an actor has become president by claiming allegiance to the very traditions that would have categorically condemned him as a hypocrite a century earlier . To this public change of Preface xiii.
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... becomes visible only when demographic , ecolog- ical , or technological pressures impel its translation into an au- tonomous institutional mechanism . An event such as the establishment of the Royal Exchange in London in 1658 is , ac ...
... becomes visible only when demographic , ecolog- ical , or technological pressures impel its translation into an au- tonomous institutional mechanism . An event such as the establishment of the Royal Exchange in London in 1658 is , ac ...
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... becomes , like money , not a source but a store of value , the individual may be said to enter into a perpetual process of internal bargaining . A pure money form embodies what Simmel calls the promise of " infinite purposiveness " and ...
... becomes , like money , not a source but a store of value , the individual may be said to enter into a perpetual process of internal bargaining . A pure money form embodies what Simmel calls the promise of " infinite purposiveness " and ...
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... becoming a principal mode of organization . Like amnesiacs , we find ourselves retracing our steps to the moment of these first provocations , steps that the doubled vision of econ- omism and aestheticism has missed . Backtracking seems ...
... becoming a principal mode of organization . Like amnesiacs , we find ourselves retracing our steps to the moment of these first provocations , steps that the doubled vision of econ- omism and aestheticism has missed . Backtracking seems ...
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... become mobile and manipulable reference points . What stands out in the " long - sixteenth - century " inventory of complaints is its groping to envisage a social abstraction - commodity exchange - that was lived rather than thought ...
... become mobile and manipulable reference points . What stands out in the " long - sixteenth - century " inventory of complaints is its groping to envisage a social abstraction - commodity exchange - that was lived rather than thought ...
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Worlds Apart: The Market and the Theater in Anglo-American Thought, 1550-1750 Jean-Christophe Agnew No preview available - 1986 |
Worlds Apart: The Market and the Theater in Anglo-American Thought, 1550-1750 Jean-Christophe Agnew No preview available - 2009 |
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