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

Folger bibliographic ID: 245428
Folger call number: PR428.M66 D46 2011
Folger holdings ID: 312156

General 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

Extended title: Coinage and state formation in early modern English literature / Stephen Deng

English literature Money in literature Coinage in literature State, The, in literature Money Politics and literature

author: Deng, Stephen, 1970-