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Author
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Date published
2009
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Publisher
Farnham : Ashgate, 2009.
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Subject
Economics and literature England History 16th century
Economics and literature England History 17th century
English literature Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism
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Accession number
83449906
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Class
65.07/KIT
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ISBN
9780754667568 (hbk.), 0754667561 (hbk.)
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Language
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Physical description
216 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Bibliography, etc. note: Includes bibliographical references and index. Formatted contents note: Contents: Shylock's "Sacred nation": Commerce, statehood, and the figure of the jew in Marlowe's Jew of Malta and Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice. UK-SuSCL. Summary, etc: Crossing the disciplinary borders between political, religious and economic history, this study demonstrates how 16th-century treatises and debates about trade influenced early modern English literature by shaping key formal and aesthetic concerns of authors between 1580 and 1630.