Coinage and state formation in early modern English literature
By: Stephen Deng
Series: Early modern cultural studies
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Rough economies: the politics and poetics of coinage; title: Dimensions of state formation; title: More's Utopia and the logic of debasement: reason, custom and natural laws of coinage; title: The great debasement and its aftermath; title: Coining crimes and moral regulation in Measure for measure; title: "Mysteries of state": the political theology of money in Macbeth; title: Foreign coins and domestic exclusion in Thomas Dekker's The shoemaker's holiday; title: Conclusion. The changing matter of money.