The Gender of Money in Middle English Literature Value and Economy in Late Medieval England /

• Main Author: Cady, Diane (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: The New Middle Ages
• Subjects: Literature, Medieval.; Europe-History-476-1492.; Sociology.; Medieval Literature.; History of Medieval Europe.; Gender Studies.

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. Thr...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1 Introduction: Anxious Interests
• Chapter 2 Money Walks
• Chapter 3: Necrophilia, Necropolitics, and the Economy of Desire in the Squire of Low Degree
• Chapter 4: The Kindness of Strangers: The Perils of Generosity in John Lydgate's Fabula Duorum Mercatorum
• Chapter 5: Midas's Touch: Common Property and Erotic Economies in Book 5 of the Confessio Amantis
• Chapter 6: Damaged Goods: Merchandise, Stories and Gender in Chaucer's The Man of Law's Tale
• Chapter 7: Coda: Make America Great Again: The Gender of Money. .