{"product_id":"chaste-value-katherine-gillen-9781474444385","title":"Chaste Value: Economic Crisis, Female Chastity and the Production of Social Difference on Shakespeare's Stage","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Katherine Gillen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1474444385\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781474444385\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/26\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.70d","brand":"Katherine Gillen","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43935514427647,"sku":"9781474444385","price":40.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_f30254db-e9e2-4f64-a9d2-62688d0c8d0d.jpg?v=1681420238","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/chaste-value-katherine-gillen-9781474444385","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}