The face of Mammon : the matter of money in English Renaissance literature / David Landreth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Landreth, David, 1973-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

English literature.

Money in literature.

Coinage in literature.

Wealth in literature.

Material culture in literature.

Money--Great Britain--History--16th century.

Money.

Money--Great Britain--History--17th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (361 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Money talked in sixteenth-century England, as money still does today. But what the sixteenth century's gold and silver had to say for itself is strikingly different from the modern discourse of money. As David Landreth demonstrates in The Face of Mammon, the material and historical differences between the coins of the English Renaissance and today's paper and electronic money propel a distinctive and complex assessment of the relation between material substance and human value.Although the sixteenth century was marked by the traumatic emergence of conditions that would prove to be characterist

Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Mammon in the Tudor Common Wealth; 1. At Home with Mammon: Matter, Money, and Memory in The Faerie Queene and The Jew of Malta; 2. Monetary Policy: King John and Measure for Measure; 3. Dismembering the Ducat in The Merchant of Venice; 4. Wit without Money in Donne and Nashe; Afterword: Before Economy; Appendix: Tudor Monetary Units; Notes; Works Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on Apr. 19, 2012).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-020832-5

0-19-977343-2

1-280-59428-4

9786613624116

OCLC:

782918133