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

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. The Common Market Of All The World : English Theater, The Global System, And The Ottoman Empire In The Early Modern Period / Daniel Vitkus -- Ill Luck, Ill Luck? : Risk And Hazard In The Merchant Of Venice / Ian Macinnes -- Salvation, Social Struggle, And The Ideology Of The Company Merchant : Baptist Goodall's The Tryall Of Travell (1630) / David J. Morrow -- The Panoramic View In Mercantile Thought : Or, A Merchant's Map Of Cymbeline / Bradley D. Ryner -- Not Every Man Has The Luck To Go To Corinth : Accruing Exotic Capital In The Jew Of Malta And Volpone / Lea Knudsen Allen -- Absent, Weak, Or Unserviceable : The East India Company And The Domestic Economy In The Launching Of The Mary, Or, The Seaman's Honest Wife / Ann Christensen -- The Flowers Of Paradise : Botanical Trade In Sixteenth- And Seventeenth-century England / Amy L. Tigner -- Inhaling The Alien : Race And Tobacco In Early Modern England / Kristen G. Brookes -- A Foreigner By Birth : The Life Of Indian Cloth In The Early Modern English Marketplace / Gitanjali Shahani -- The Tempest And The Newfoundland Cod Fishery / Edward M. Test -- Mysteries Of Commerce : Influence, Licensing, Censorship, And The Literature Of Long-distance Travel / Matthew Day -- Global œconomy : Ben Jonson's The Staple Of News And The Ethics Of Mercantilism / Stephen Deng -- Afterword : Accommodating Change / Jean E. Howard. Edited By Barbara Sebek And Stephen Deng. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Contents......Page 6 List of Figures......Page 8 Acknowledgments......Page 10 Series Editor’s Preface......Page 12 Notes on Contributors......Page 14 Global Traffic: An Introduction......Page 18 Part I: Emergent Epistemologies of Trade......Page 34 1 “The Common Market of All the World”: English Theater, the Global System, and the Ottoman Empire in the Early Modern Period......Page 36 2 “Ill luck, Ill luck?”: Risk and Hazard in The Merchant of Venice......Page 56 3 Salvation, Social Struggle, and the Ideology of the Company Merchant: Baptist Goodall’s The Tryall of Trauell (1630)......Page 74 4 The Panoramic View in Mercantile Thought: Or, a Merchant’s Map of Cymbeline......Page 94 5 “Not every man has the luck to go to Corinth”: Accruing Exotic Capital in The Jew of Malta and Volpone......Page 112 Part II: Transforming Home through Trade......Page 132 6 “Absent, weak, or unserviceable”: The East India Company and the Domestic Economy in The Launching of the Mary, or The Seaman’s Honest Wife......Page 134 7 The Flowers of Paradise: Botanical Trade in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century England......Page 154 8 Inhaling the Alien: Race and Tobacco in Early Modern England......Page 174 9 “A Foreigner by Birth”: The Life of Indian Cloth in the Early Modern English Marketplace......Page 196 Part III: Trade and the Interests of State......Page 216 10 The Tempest and the Newfoundland Cod Fishery......Page 218 11 “Mysteries of Commerce”: Influence, Licensing, Censorship, and the Literature of Long-Distance Travel......Page 238 12 Global Œconomy: Ben Jonson’s The Staple of News and the Ethics of Mercantilism......Page 262 13 Afterword: Accommodating Change......Page 282 B......Page 292 C......Page 293 D......Page 294 E......Page 295 H......Page 296 J......Page 297 M......Page 298 P......Page 300 S......Page 301 T......Page 302 W......Page 303 Z......Page 304 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. Trata de la relación entre la literatura y la economía en el contexto de la expansión del comercio inglés de larga distancia durante los siglos XVI y XVII. Se estudia la globalización desde una perspectiva nueva