Speculative Enterprise
Title | Speculative Enterprise PDF eBook |
Author | Mattie Burkert |
Publisher | University of Virginia Press |
Pages | 346 |
Release | 2021-05-07 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0813945976 |
In the wake of the 1688 revolution, England’s transition to financial capitalism accelerated dramatically. Londoners witnessed the rise of credit-based currencies, securities markets, speculative bubbles, insurance schemes, and lotteries. Many understood these phenomena in terms shaped by their experience with another risky venture at the heart of London life: the public theater. Speculative Enterprise traces the links these observers drew between the operations of Drury Lane and Exchange Alley, including their hypercommercialism, dependence on collective opinion, and accessibility to people of different classes and genders. Mattie Burkert identifies a discursive "theater-finance nexus" at work in plays by Colley Cibber, Richard Steele, and Susanna Centlivre as well as in the vibrant eighteenth-century media landscape. As Burkert demonstrates, the stock market and the entertainment industry were recognized as deeply interconnected institutions that, when considered together, illuminated the nature of the public more broadly and gave rise to new modes of publicity and resistance. In telling this story, Speculative Enterprise combines methods from literary studies, theater and performance history, media theory, and work on print and material culture to provide a fresh understanding of the centrality of theater to public life in eighteenth-century London.
The enterprise
Title | The enterprise PDF eBook |
Author | Hugh Ronald Conyngton |
Publisher | |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 1923 |
Genre | Corporations |
ISBN |
Speculative Enterprise
Title | Speculative Enterprise PDF eBook |
Author | Mattie Burkert |
Publisher | |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2021-05-04 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780813945958 |
In the wake of the 1688 revolution, England's transition to financial capitalism accelerated dramatically. Londoners witnessed the rise of credit-based currencies, securities markets, speculative bubbles, insurance schemes, and lotteries. Many understood these phenomena in terms shaped by their experience with another risky venture at the heart of London life: the public theater. Speculative Enterprise traces the links these observers drew between the operations of Drury Lane and Exchange Alley, including their hypercommercialism, dependence on collective opinion, and accessibility to people of different classes and genders. Mattie Burkert identifies a discursive "theater-finance nexus" at work in plays by Colley Cibber, Richard Steele, and Susanna Centlivre as well as in the vibrant eighteenth-century media landscape. As Burkert demonstrates, the stock market and the entertainment industry were recognized as deeply interconnected institutions that, when considered together, illuminated the nature of the public more broadly and gave rise to new modes of publicity and resistance. In telling this story, Speculative Enterprise combines methods from literary studies, theater and performance history, media theory, and work on print and material culture to provide a fresh understanding of the centrality of theater to public life in eighteenth-century London.
Promotion
Title | Promotion PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur Stone Dewing |
Publisher | |
Pages | 188 |
Release | 1920 |
Genre | Corporations |
ISBN |
The Financial Policy of Corporations
Title | The Financial Policy of Corporations PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur Stone Dewing |
Publisher | |
Pages | 350 |
Release | 1919 |
Genre | Corporations |
ISBN |
Current Economic Problems
Title | Current Economic Problems PDF eBook |
Author | Walton Hale Hamilton |
Publisher | |
Pages | 914 |
Release | 1916 |
Genre | Economics |
ISBN |
Speculative Landscapes
Title | Speculative Landscapes PDF eBook |
Author | Ross Barrett |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 251 |
Release | 2022-07-12 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0520343913 |
Introduction -- Land, looking, and futurity in the Hudson Valley -- Digging for gold : allegories of speculation on the Illinois frontier -- Picturing land and labor in the Old Northwest and New England -- Perilous prospects : speculation and landscape painting in Florida -- Painting and property on Prout's Neck -- Conclusion.