Jonathan Gil Harris challenges the way we conventionally understand physical objects. Turning to Renaissance theories of matter, he considers the profound untimeliness of things, focusing particularly on Shakespeare's stage materials.

Untimely Matter in the Time of Shakespeare

Jonathan Gil Harris

2008 | 288 pages | Cloth $69.95 | Paper $24.95
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Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Urban Housefuls
2. Work in the Atlantic Service Economy
3. Family Credit and Shared Debts
4. Translating Money
5. Shopping Networks and Consumption as Collaboration
6. The Republic of Goods
Conclusion

Notes
Index
Acknowledgments