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Author:

Deng, Stephen, 1970-

Title:

Coinage and state formation in early modern English literature / Stephen Deng.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2011

Description:

xvi, 268 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
Money in literature
Coinage in literature.
State, The, in literature
Money--History--Great Britain--History--16th century.
Money--History--Great Britain--History--17th century.
Politics and literature--Great Britain--History--16th century.
Politics and literature--Great Britain--History--17th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [244]-257) and index.

Contents:

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.

Series:

Early modern cultural studies

ISBN:

0230110231
9780230110236

OCLC:

(OCoLC)664114847

LCCN:

2010035167

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)