Monsters of the market : zombies, vampires, and global capitalism / by David McNally.
"Monsters of the Market investigates the rise of capitalism through the prism of the body-panics it arouses. Drawing on folklore, literature and popular culture, the book links tales of monstrosity from early-modern England, including Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, to a spate of recent vampi...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2011.
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| Series: | Historical materialism book series ;
30. |
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | "Monsters of the Market investigates the rise of capitalism through the prism of the body-panics it arouses. Drawing on folklore, literature and popular culture, the book links tales of monstrosity from early-modern England, including Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, to a spate of recent vampire- and zombie-fables from sub-Saharan Africa, and it connects these to Marx's persistent use of monster-metaphors in his descriptions of capitalism. Reading across these tales of the grotesque, Monsters of the Market offers a novel account of the cultural and corporeal economy of a global market-system. The book thus makes original contributions to political economy, cultural theory, commodification-studies and 'body-theory'."--Publisher's website. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 296 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789004206939 9004206930 1283161338 9781283161336 |