The Gender of Money in Middle English Literature: Value and Economy in Late Medieval England (The New Middle Ages)

La 4ème de couverture indique : "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." Acknowledgements 6 Praise for “The Gender of Money in Middle English Literature” 8 Contents 9 Chapter 1 Introduction: Anxious Interests 10 Chapter 2 Money Walks 21 Chapter 3 Necrophilia, Necropolitics, and the Economy of Desire in the Squire of Low Degree 41 Chapter 4 The Kindness of Strangers: The Perils of Generosity in John Lydgate’s Fabula Duorum Mercatorum 59 “Every wiht hath ther suffisaunce”: Imaginative Geographies of the Medieval East 66 Amores Ereos: Heroes in Love/The Love of Heroes 72 Stranger Danger 78 Chapter 5 Midas’s Touch: Common Property and Erotic Economies in Book 5 of the Confessio Amantis 93 The Body and the City-State: The Classical Debate About Private Property 95 “All Things Are Common Among Us but Our Wives”: Christian Views of Property 101 “Hyhe Walles for to Kepe”: Avarice and Enclosure 105 “Mesure Double and Double Weyhte”: The Usurious Lady 116 Naked and Afraid: Avarice, Jealousy, and “Common” Property 125 Chapter 6 Damaged Goods: Merchandise, Stories, and Gender in Chaucer’s the Man of Law’s Tale 132 A Very Lord of Merchants: Poetry and Rhetoric in the Late Middle Ages 137 “What Nedeth Gretter Dilatacioun?”: Rhetoric, Gender, and Bringing Stories to Market 149 Narrative Dearth, Anxiety, and “Unkynde Abhomynaciouns” 155 Generosity, Gender, and an “Economy of Excess” 162 Chapter 7 Coda: Make America Great Again—The Gender of Money 168 Bibliography 174 Index 191 La 4ème de couverture indique : "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." Front Matter ....Pages i-ix Introduction: Anxious Interests (Diane Cady)....Pages 1-11 Money Walks (Diane Cady)....Pages 13-32 Necrophilia, Necropolitics, and the Economy of Desire in the Squire of Low Degree (Diane Cady)....Pages 33-50 The Kindness of Strangers: The Perils of Generosity in John Lydgate’s Fabula Duorum Mercatorum (Diane Cady)....Pages 51-84 Midas’s Touch: Common Property and Erotic Economies in Book 5 of the Confessio Amantis (Diane Cady)....Pages 85-123 Damaged Goods: Merchandise, Stories, and Gender in Chaucer’s the Man of Law’s Tale (Diane Cady)....Pages 125-160 Coda: Make America Great Again—The Gender of Money (Diane Cady)....Pages 161-166 Back Matter ....Pages 167-189