Gender of Money in Middle English Literature

Diane Cady is Professor of English at Mills College, USA, where she teaches and writes about premodern culture, literary theory and gender studies.  She is particularly interested in the ways in which the medieval past intersects with contemporary culture.

• Chapter 1  Introduction:  Anxious Interests.- Chapter 2  Money Walks.- Chapter 3: Necrophilia, Necropolitics, and the Economy of Desire in the Squire of Low Degree.- Chapter 4:  The Kindness of Strangers: The Perils of Generosity in John Lydgate’s Fabula Duorum Mercatorum.- Chapter 5:  Midas’s Touch: Common Property and Erotic Economies in Book 5 of the Confessio Amantis.- Chapter 6:  Damaged Goods:  Merchandise, Stories and Gender in Chaucer’s The Man of Law’s Tale.- Chapter 7: Coda: Make America Great Again: The Gender of Money.