Monsters of the Market(English, Hardcover, McNally David)

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Monsters of the Market(English, Hardcover, McNally David) is written by McNally David and published by Brill. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9004201572 (ISBN 10) and 9789004201576 (ISBN 13).

Winner of the 2012 Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize.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'.