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The gender of money in Middle English literature : value and economy in late medieval England

Title
The gender of money in Middle English literature : value and economy in late medieval England / Diane Cady.
Author
Cady, Diane
Publication
  • Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]
  • ©2019

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ix, 189 pages; 22 cm.
Summary
The Gender of Money in Middle English Literature: Value and Economy in Late Medieval England explores the vital and under-examined role that gender plays in the conceptualization of money and value in a period that precedes and shapes what we now recognize as the discipline of political economy. Through readings of a range of late Middle English texts, this book demonstrates the ways in which gender ideology provided a vocabulary for articulating fears and fantasies about money and value in the late Middle Ages. These ideas inform beliefs about money and value in the West, particularly in realms that are often seen as outside the sphere of economy, such as friendship, love and poetry. Exploring the gender of money helps us to better understand late medieval notions of economy, and to recognize the ways in which gender ideology continues to haunt our understanding of money and value, albeit often in occluded ways.
Series Statement
The New Middle Ages
Uniform Title
New Middle Ages (Palgrave (Firm))
Subject
  • 1100-1500
  • English literature > Middle English, 1100-1500 > History and criticism
  • English literature > Middle English
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: Anxious interests -- Money walks -- Necrophilia, necropolitics, and the economy of desire in the Squire of low degree -- The kindness of strangers : the perils of generosity in John Lydgate's Fabula duorum mercatorum -- Midas's touch : common property and erotic economies in Book 5 of the Confessio Amantis -- Damaged goods : merchandise, stories, and gender in Chaucer's the Man of law's tale -- Coda: Make America great again-- the gender of money.
Call Number
JFD 20-1487
ISBN
  • 9783030262600
  • 303026260X
  • 9783030262617 (canceled/invalid)
  • 3030262618 (canceled/invalid)
OCLC
1121193925
Author
Cady, Diane, author.
Title
The gender of money in Middle English literature : value and economy in late medieval England / Diane Cady.
Publisher
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]
Copyright Date
©2019
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
The New Middle Ages
New Middle Ages (Palgrave (Firm))
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chronological Term
1100-1500
Other Form:
ebook version : 9783030262617
Research Call Number
JFD 20-1487
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