{"title":"Queer Theory, Queer Historicism: Recent Works","authors":"Melissa E. Sanchez","doi":"10.1353/jem.2019.0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jem.2019.0023","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42614,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies","volume":"19 1","pages":"141 - 153"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/jem.2019.0023","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44400980","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Afterword: From Colonial History to Colonial Genealogies","authors":"J. Blanco","doi":"10.1353/jem.2019.0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jem.2019.0022","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42614,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies","volume":"19 1","pages":"130 - 140"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/jem.2019.0022","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42749341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Necroeconomics, Originary Accumulation, and Racial Capitalism in the Early Iberian Slave Trade","authors":"Anna More","doi":"10.1353/jem.2019.0020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jem.2019.0020","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article argues that necroeconomics, the theory and practice of letting populations die in the interest of preserving a free market, first appeared in writings on the early Iberian slave trade. Gil Eanes de Zurara's Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea (1453) describes the first large-scale sale of enslaved Africans in 1444, representing it as a breach in natural law. The Portuguese historian justifies this breach through the presence of the sovereign and by suggesting racial distinctions between the Africans and the Portuguese. By the end of the sixteenth century, these justifications were further developed in Scholastic economic theory. Luis de Molina's De Iustitia et Iure (1593) argues that even if they lacked documentation, traders could assume that any African sold had been legitimately enslaved, effectively freeing the market from natural law and sovereign control. While necroeconomics has been linked to eighteenth-century liberalism, these examples indicate that its theory and practice were already present in the context of what Karl Marx termed \"originary accumulation.\" Recognizing this early necroeconomics deepens understandings of what has been called \"racial capitalism,\" here defined as the inextricability of capitalist accumulation from the racialized distribution of life and death.","PeriodicalId":42614,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies","volume":"19 1","pages":"100 - 75"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/jem.2019.0020","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66404130","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Assessing Worth across the Iberian Empires: Pearls and the Role of Human Capital in the Creation of Value, c. 1500–1700","authors":"M. Warsh","doi":"10.1353/jem.2019.0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jem.2019.0019","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article considers the importance of context in assessments of pearls' worth throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, with an emphasis on the Iberian imperial sphere. It argues that calculations of pearls' worth were based at least in part on the relationships they facilitated or advanced. Small-scale negotiations over pearl fishing and pearl circulation in this period—in which European monarchies were refining large-scale mechanisms for managing resources—reveal how crowns conceived of wealth management and generation. They simultaneously show how stakeholders on the ground understood and implemented, or obstructed, these processes.","PeriodicalId":42614,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies","volume":"19 1","pages":"52 - 74"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/jem.2019.0019","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42622770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Language Not One's Own: Translational Exchange in Seventeenth-Century Englishwomen's Iberian Recipes","authors":"Madeline Bassnett","doi":"10.1353/jem.2019.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jem.2019.0010","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:This essay examines collections of recipes from Spain and Portugal in three seventeenth-century manuscript recipe books owned and attributed to Ann Fanshawe (Wellcome MS 7113); Mary Granville and Anne Granville D'Ewes (Folger MS V.a.430); and Sarah Hughes (Wellcome MS 363). Drawing on theories of translation and of the paratext, this essay argues that these recipes, which are often recorded in their language of origin, contain foreign terminology or references, or paradoxically inscribe their provenance through translation, actively positioning themselves as transcultural and transnational communications. In resisting assimilationist practices of translation, these recipes give us a household counter-narrative of amity between countries that were often antagonistic. In turn, they position the female owners of these books as \"go-between\" translators of cultural practices and epistemologies with the power to use, circulate, and pass down this manuscript knowledge, thus exemplifying the informal networks of hospitable exchange, friendship, and alliance that exist beyond the bounds of official state politics.","PeriodicalId":42614,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies","volume":"19 1","pages":"1 - 27"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/jem.2019.0010","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49556448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Practicing Sex","authors":"Joseph Gamble","doi":"10.1353/jem.2019.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jem.2019.0013","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:This essay approaches \"sexuality\" as encompassing both sex acts and the knowledge relations they entail. Concatenating these two concepts as a hyphenated sexual-logistical knowledge, this essay argues that attending simultaneously to the phenomenology, epistemology, and pedagogy of sex acts—to what bodies do, what they have to know to do it, and how they acquire this knowledge—will enable scholars to develop more nuanced analyses of the quotidian sexual relations of historical actors. Reading Thomas Nashe's \"The Choise of Valentines\" (1592), Thomas Carew's \"A Rapture\" (1640), the anonymous The School of Venus (1680), and the medical treatise Aristotle's Masterpiece (1684/90), this essay demonstrates that the production of sexual knowledge is not merely a discursive phenomenon operating at the macro-level of various disciplinary institutions but also a key part of the phenomenology of sexual practice. Shifting the focus from what sex meant to how sex was practiced, this essay argues, allows scholars to ask new questions about how sex threaded itself through the daily lives of early modern subjects. Focusing primarily on representations of women guiding men's penises into their vaginas, this essay also brings a queer feminist perspective to a supposedly normative sex act.","PeriodicalId":42614,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies","volume":"19 1","pages":"116 - 85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/jem.2019.0013","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48793518","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lyric Apocalypse: Milton, Marvell and the Nature of Events by Ryan Netzley (review)","authors":"Amir Khan","doi":"10.1353/jem.2019.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jem.2019.0014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42614,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies","volume":"19 1","pages":"117 - 123"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/jem.2019.0014","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44350707","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Field of Cloth of Gold by Glenn Richardson (review)","authors":"Brian Brege","doi":"10.1353/jem.2019.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jem.2019.0011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42614,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies","volume":"19 1","pages":"123 - 130"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/jem.2019.0011","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48827713","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dependent Contractors: Timon of Athens, Collaborative Writing, and Theatrical Capitalism","authors":"Raphael Magarik","doi":"10.1353/jem.2019.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jem.2019.0015","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:William Shakespeare and Thomas Middleton's Timon of Athens is not only a co-authored play but also a play about co-authorship. Timon contrasts the stultifying effects of artistic patronage with the exchange of alienated labor, explaining in the process both the peculiarities of the Alcibiades subplot and the significance of Middleton's comedy. Engaging and assessing recent scholarship on collaboration, this article argues that Renaissance theatrical collaboration represents not an original state prior to the imposition of individualist Romantic ideology, but rather an innovative result of newly flexible, complex, and capitalist theatrical economies. Thinking of collaboration in economic terms foregrounds its links to alienation and to exploitation, accounting for inequalities and asymmetries between writers. Using this approach, we can see that Timon charts the collapse of patronage relations and the emergence of a newly impersonal, capitalist basis for exchange.","PeriodicalId":42614,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies","volume":"19 1","pages":"28 - 64"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/jem.2019.0015","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47556087","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Salty Language: Herring and Intemperate Appetites in Shakespeare's London","authors":"Rosamund Paice","doi":"10.1353/JEM.2019.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/JEM.2019.0016","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:References to herring in the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries provide insights into the language of the London streets and reveal something of street-life at the turn of the seventeenth century. Unlike fresh fish (an expensive commodity), smoked and pickled herring was cheap and associated as much with the habits of an ale-drinking underclass as with fasting. More common—readily available and associated with the vulgar—than other fish, preserved herring was integral to the commercial and social life around the Thames. This pervasiveness of the herring, and its urban and social alignments, imbued it with a figurative value. For writers of the period, herring gained currency as a symbol of unmanliness and indiscriminate (sexual) appetites. A stock-in-trade of the taverns, it took in alehouse associations with disorder and sexual liaisons (including prostitution). Herring references uncover the unmistakable whiff of innuendo, revealing playful categories of masculinity, from the sexually exhausted \"shotten herring\" to interchangeable and ungentlemanly \"pickled herring.\" Herring-related deaths (including Thomas Nashe's description of Robert Greene's \"fatal banquet of Rhenish wine and pickled herring\") underscore that there is no such thing as an innocent herring in the hands of the London writers.","PeriodicalId":42614,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies","volume":"19 1","pages":"65 - 84"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/JEM.2019.0016","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44564422","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}