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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... social intercourse . And often enough , their bounds have been effectively coexisten- sive . The theater of late medieval and early modern England , for example , was a theater in and of the marketplace . And though the rules governing ...
... social intercourse . And often enough , their bounds have been effectively coexisten- sive . The theater of late medieval and early modern England , for example , was a theater in and of the marketplace . And though the rules governing ...
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... social and cultural problems and as such were left to the theater ( among other institutions ) to take up during this period . It is thus in the evolution of the theater and its conventions of representation - its theatricality - that I ...
... social and cultural problems and as such were left to the theater ( among other institutions ) to take up during this period . It is thus in the evolution of the theater and its conventions of representation - its theatricality - that I ...
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... social structuration of their commercial and theatrical experience . It is to speak , in short , of changing definitions of commerciality and theatricality . Studied in suffi- cient detail , these two themes can illuminate one another ...
... social structuration of their commercial and theatrical experience . It is to speak , in short , of changing definitions of commerciality and theatricality . Studied in suffi- cient detail , these two themes can illuminate one another ...
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... social , cul- tural , and historical contexts within which those motives have been variously structured . The prominence that the act of choice occupies in virtually all economic thinking , whether it be a choice of utilities ...
... social , cul- tural , and historical contexts within which those motives have been variously structured . The prominence that the act of choice occupies in virtually all economic thinking , whether it be a choice of utilities ...
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... social intercourse a pointed , transactional quality . Political economy merely rationalizes this transactional expe- rience of the world by implanting a trucking and bartering in- stinct in the individual in such a way as to 4 Worlds ...
... social intercourse a pointed , transactional quality . Political economy merely rationalizes this transactional expe- rience of the world by implanting a trucking and bartering in- stinct in the individual in such a way as to 4 Worlds ...
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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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