{"product_id":"chaste-value-economic-crisis-female-chastity-and-the-production-of-social-difference-on-shakespeares-stage-paperback","title":"Chaste Value: Economic Crisis, Female Chastity and the Production of Social Difference on Shakespeare's Stage - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKatherine Gillen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eExamines the way that theatrical representations of chastity inform broader concerns about the commoditisation of people in early capitalism\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eChaste Value reassesses chastity's significance in early modern drama, arguing that presentations of chastity inform the stage's production of early capitalist subjectivity and social difference. Plays invoke chastity--itself a quasi-commodity--to interrogate the relationship between personal and economic value. Through chastity discourse, the stage disrupts pre-capitalist ideas of intrinsic value while also reallocating such value according to emerging hierarchies of gender, race, class, and nationality. Chastity, therefore, emerges as a central category within early articulations of humanity, determining who possesses intrinsic value and, conversely, whose bodies and labor can be incorporated into market exchange.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eKey Features\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReevaluates early modern drama's engagement with female chastity, situating them within broader anxieties about personal commoditization in early capitalist England\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers an update\/corrective to new economic critical approaches by demonstrating how concerns about personal and economic value shape emerging hierarchies of race, class, gender, and nationality\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eUniquely synthesizes current topics of concern in early modern literary studies\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers innovative readings of seventeen literary works in relation to early modern debates about value, exchange, commoditization, and subjectivity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e*APPROVED* Examines the way that theatrical representations of chastity inform broader concerns about the commoditisation of people in early capitalism Chaste Value reassesses chastity's significance in early modern drama, arguing that presentations of chastity inform the stage's production of early capitalist subjectivity and social difference. Plays invoke chastity--itself a quasi-commodity--to interrogate the relationship between personal and economic value. Through chastity discourse, the stage disrupts pre-capitalist ideas of intrinsic value while also reallocating such value according to emerging hierarchies of gender, race, class, and nationality. Chastity, therefore, emerges as a central category within early articulations of humanity, determining who possesses intrinsic value and, conversely, whose bodies and labor can be incorporated into market exchange. Katherine Gillen is Assistant Professor of English at Texas A\u0026amp;M University-San Antonio. Her work focuses on issues of economics, social difference, and theatrical representation in the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. She has published articles in edited collections and in journals such as Early English Studies, Cahiers Elisabéthains, Shakespeare Jahrbuch, and Studies in English Literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKatherine Gillen\u003c\/strong\u003e is Assistant Professor of English at Texas A\u0026amp;M University-San Antonio.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 9 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 26, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51807487459616,"sku":"9781474444385","price":76.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/6fb94ace08c57a627ab6c9657f7f1f0c.webp?v=1780933590","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/chaste-value-economic-crisis-female-chastity-and-the-production-of-social-difference-on-shakespeares-stage-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}