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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... sense , thought these two themes together precisely because they experienced their markets and their stage as distinct and different universes . Only here I propose that the decisive historical difference lay not so much between the two ...
... sense , thought these two themes together precisely because they experienced their markets and their stage as distinct and different universes . Only here I propose that the decisive historical difference lay not so much between the two ...
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... sense , then , that markets and theaters have stood as worlds apart . Owing to the special and often implicit condi- tions of belief and accountability that operate within their bounds , the two institutions have for long periods of ...
... sense , then , that markets and theaters have stood as worlds apart . Owing to the special and often implicit condi- tions of belief and accountability that operate within their bounds , the two institutions have for long periods of ...
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... sense of its characteristic inclination to set historical and cultural contingencies aside in its analysis of exchange . We can begin to understand , for example , how the same pressures for market predictability that inspired an ...
... sense of its characteristic inclination to set historical and cultural contingencies aside in its analysis of exchange . We can begin to understand , for example , how the same pressures for market predictability that inspired an ...
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... sense of oppor- tunities foregone , or withheld . Once the environment itself assumes the character of a more or less calculable liquidity and becomes , like money , not a source but a store of value , the individual may be said to ...
... sense of oppor- tunities foregone , or withheld . Once the environment itself assumes the character of a more or less calculable liquidity and becomes , like money , not a source but a store of value , the individual may be said to ...
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... Sense phi- losophy . But the authority that this structure's design exercised over those High Victorian minds who inhabited it rested in no small part on the new grammar of motives - the new hedonistic terms of placement – into which ...
... Sense phi- losophy . But the authority that this structure's design exercised over those High Victorian minds who inhabited it rested in no small part on the new grammar of motives - the new hedonistic terms of placement – into which ...
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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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