Economies of Literature and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe

Subha Mukherji is Principle Investigator of the ERC project, Crossroads ofKnowledge in Early Modern England: the Place of Literature. She teaches Englishat the University of Cambridge, UK, and at Fitzwilliam College. She has publishedwidely on various aspects of Renaissance English literature, interdisciplinaryapproaches, and literary epistemologies.Dunstan Roberts is a Praeceptor in English at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge,UK. He has published on various aspects of library history and the history of thebook in the Early Modern period.Rebecca Tomlin was a Research Associate on the Crossroads of Knowledgeproject and an Early Career Fellow of the London Renaissance Seminar. Currentlyworking on a monograph based on her Birkbeck PhD thesis, she also has aninterest in early double-entry book-keeping. When not researching she works ata City livery company.GeorgeOppitz-Trotman was a Research Associate on the Crossroads ofKnowledge project. He has published on diverse aspects of Early Modern culture,particularly as they intersect with theatre.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Some Economic Aspects to Private Prayer in Shakespeare.- 3. Fake News: The Marketplace of Boccalini’s Parnassian Press and the History of Criticism.- 4. Emblem Books, Gift-exchange Practices and Œconomia.- 5. Vexed and Insatiable: Unfeelable Feelings and the Marketplace of Early Modern Drama.- 6. Poesies for Prizes: Queen Elizabeth’s Lottery, Providential Rule and ‘Fair Advantages’ in Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice.- 7. ‘Her tongue hath guilded it’: Speaking Economically in Thomas Heywood’s Edward IV.- 8. ‘To Look on Your Incestuous Eyes’: Knowledge, Matter, and Desire in Richard Brome’s The Queen’s Exchange and The New Academy, or the New Exchange.- 9. Mirifica commutatio: The Economy of Salvation in Reformation Theology.- 10. In vulcano veritas: Sir Hugh Platt’s Alchemical Exchanges.- 11. Freedom from Debt: The Economies of The Tempest.