Coinage and State Formation in Early Modern English Literature [electronic resource] /
Deng, S.author.
A reassessment of the historic relation between money and the state through the lens of early modern English literature, Coinage and State Formation examines the political implications of the monetary form in light of material and visual properties of coins as well as the persistence of both intrinsic and extrinsic theories of value.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references 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.
A reassessment of the historic relation between money and the state through the lens of early modern English literature, Coinage and State Formation examines the political implications of the monetary form in light of material and visual properties of coins as well as the persistence of both intrinsic and extrinsic theories of value.
Literature-History and criticism.
Great Britain-History.
Communication.
British literature.
Literature, Modern.
Literary History.
History of Britain and Ireland.
Media Studies.
British and Irish Literature.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.