Coinage and state formation in early modern English literature /
Deng, Stephen,1970-
New York ; London : Palgrave Macmillan,
2011.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-257) and index.
Introduction. Rough economies: the politics and poetics of coinage -- Dimensions of state formation -- More's Utopia and the logic of debasement: reason, custom and natural laws of coinage -- The great debasement and its aftermath -- Coining crimes and moral regulation in Measure for measure -- "Mysteries of state": the political theology of money in Macbeth -- Foreign coins and domestic exclusion in Thomas Dekker's The shoemaker's holiday -- Conclusion. The changing matter of money.
English literature
Money in literature.
Coinage in literature.
State, The, in literature.
Money
Money
Politics and literature
Politics and literature