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[Fall 2003]
CLEN G6128 Trade and Traffic
in the Early Modern World
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Alan Stewart |
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This course will interrogate early modern
England’s sense of itself, focusing on the hopes
and fears provoked by the multifarious trade and traffic
between the English and other peoples, both inside and
beyond the country’s borders, raising questions of
economics, ethnicity, religion and nationality. Materials
will draw on drama by Robert Wilson, Marlowe, Shakespeare,
William Haughton and various ‘Turk’ plays; economic
treatises, acts and proclamations, and travel narratives;
in relation to evolving current critical work.
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SYLLABUS
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| Week 1: |
INTRODUCTION
We shall discuss the syllabus at the first session. It's
my hope that we can adapt the second half of the course
to accommodate particular research and methodological
interests you may have within the general remit of "Trade
and Traffic".
Discussion for this class will focus on
"A Libell, fixte vpon the French Church Wall, in
London. Anno. 1593o" and supporting documents
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| Week 2: |
RICH JEWS AND MERCHANTS
— Croxton Play of the Sacrament [extract]
— Christopher Marlowe, The Jew of Malta, any edition
— Lisa Jardine, "Alien intelligence: Mercantile
exchange and knowledge transactions in Marlowe's The Jew
of Malta" in Reading Shakespeare Historically (London:
Routledge, 1996), 98-113
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THE POLITICS OF USURY
— Thomas Wilson, A Discourse on Usury [EEBO]
— Norman Jones, God and the Moneylenders: Usury and
the law in early modern England (Oxford: Blackwell, 1989),
esp. chs 1 and 2
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LONDON AND THE IMPORT/EXPORT TRADE
— Robert Wilson, Three Ladies of London [also on
EEBO]
— R.H. Tawney ed., Tudor Economic Documents [extracts]
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| Week 5: |
USURER'S CAPITAL VS MERCHANT'S CAPITAL
— William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice [any
edition]
— Michael Nerlich, Ideology of Adventure, vol 1,
ch. 7 [extracts]
— Jonathan Gil Harris, "Taint and Usury: Gerard
Malynes, The Dutch Church Libel, The Merchant of Venice",
ch. 3 of his forthcoming book, Sick Economies: Drama,
Mercantilism and Disease in Shakespeare's England (Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004), 52-82
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THE PORTINGALE: AMBIGUOUS IDENTITY
— William Haughton, Englishmen for My Money [EEBO]
— Edmund Valentine Campos, "Jews, Spaniards,
and Portingales: ambiguous identities of Portuguese marranos
in Elizabethan England", ELH 69 (2002), 599-616 [JSTOR]
— Lloyd Edward Kermode, "After Shylock: The
'Judaiser' in England", Renaissance and Reformation
20:4 (1996), 5-26
— C.J. Sisson, "A Colony of Jews in Shakespeare's
London", Essays and Studies 23 (1938), 38-51
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| Week 7: |
THE TREASON OF DR LOPEZ
— Francis Bacon, "The Detestable Treason of
Dr Roderigo Lopez" (1594)
— James Shapiro, "There were no Jews in Shakespeare's
England", extract from his Shakespeare and the Jews
(New York: Columbia University Press, 1996), 62-88
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| Week 8: |
TURNING TURK: TRADE AND CONVERSION
— William Daborne, A Christian Turned Turk [+]
— Philip Massinger,The Renegado [+]
— William Shakespeare, Othello
[+] in Three Turk plays from early modern England ed.
Daniel J. Vitkus (New York: Columbia University Press,
2000)
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| Week 9: |
EARLY MODERN ECONOMICS
— Gerard de Malynes, The Maintenance of Free Trade
(1623)
— Gerard de Malynes, A treatise of the canker of
Englands commonwealth
— Mary Poovey, A history of the modern fact: problems
of knowledge in the sciences of wealth and society (Chicago,
Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1998)
— Andrea Finkelstein, Harmony and the balance : an
intellectual history of seventeenth-century English economic
thought (Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2000)
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| Week 10: |
COMMODITIES AND THE FETISH
— Arjun Appadurai, "Introduction: Commodities
and the politics of value" in The Social Life of
Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective ed. Arjun
Appadurai (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986),
3-63
— William Pietz, "The Problem of the Fetish,
I", Res 9 (1985), 5-17
— "The Problem of the Fetish, II", Res
13 (1987), 23-45
— "The Problem of the Fetish, IIIa", Res
16 (1988), 105-23
— "Fetishism and Materialism: The limits of
theory in Marx" in Fetishism as cultural discourse
ed. Emily Apter and William Pietz (Ithaca: Cornell University
Press, 1993), 114-51
— Ann Rosalind Jones and Peter Stallybrass, "Fetishisms
and Renaissances", Historicism, Psychoanalysis and
Early Modern Culture ed. Carla Mazzio and Douglas Trevor
(New York: Routledge, 2000), 21-35
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EUROPEANS IN INDIA
— Edward Terry, Early Travels in India, 1583-1619
ed. William Foster (New York: Oxford University Press,
1921)
— Thomas Roe and John Fryer, Travels in India in
the Seventeenth Century (New Delhi: Asian Educational
Services, 1993)
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| Week 12: |
EUROPEANS IN AFRICA
— readings tba
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| Week 13: |
PRESENTATIONS |
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| Background |
— K.R. Andrews, Trade, Plunder and Settlement: Maritime
enterprise and the genesis of the British Empire (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1984)
— Fernand Braudel, The Mediterranean and the mediterranean
world in the age of Philip II trans. Siân Reynolds
( New York, Harper & Row,1972)
— Robert Brenner, Merchants and Revolution: Commercial
Change, Political Conflict, and London's Overseas Traders
1550-1653 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993)
— Jerry Brotton, Trading territories: mapping the
early modern world (Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press,
1998)
— E. Kerridge, Trade and Banking in Early Modern
England (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1988)
— Lisa Jardine and Jerry Brotton, Global Interests
(Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000)
— Norman Jones, "The adaptation of tradition:
The image of the Turk in Protestant England", East
European Quarterly 12 (1978), 161-75
— Ivo Kamps and Jyotsna G. Singh eds, Travel knowledge
: European "discoveries" in the early modern
period (New York: Palgrave, 2001)
— Ania Loomba, Shakespeare, race, and colonialism
(Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2002)
— Ania Loomba and Martin Orkin eds, Post-colonial
Shakespeares (London and New York: Routledge, 1998)
— Nabil Matar, Islam in Britain, 1558-1685 (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1998)
— Nabil Matar, Turks, Moors and Englishmen in the
age of discovery (New York : Columbia University Press,
1999)
— Craig Muldrew, The economy of obligation : the
culture of credit and social relations in early modern
England (New York : St. Martin's Press, 1998)
— Om Prakash, European Commercial Enterprise in Pre-Colonial
India (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998)
— Shankar Raman, Framing 'India' : the colonial imaginary
in early modern culture (Stanford: Stanford University
Press, 2001)
— James Shapiro, Shakespeare and the Jews (New York:
Columbia University Press, 1996)
— Jyotsna G. Singh, Colonial narratives/cultural
dialogues : "discoveries" of India in the language
of colonialism (New York : Routledge, 1996)
— Goran V. Stanivukovic, "Recent Studies of
English Renaissance Literature of the Mediterranean",
ELR 32:1 (Winter 2002), 168-86
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