The Face Of Mammon: The Matter Of Money In English Renaissance Literature

Relying on works by Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Nashe, and Donne, The Face of Mammon argues that the coinage of the sixteenth century is a very different object from the money that we know today--not only formally but conceptually, in that modern money is the object proper to a discourse, economics, that had not yet taken shape in the sixteenth century. Instead, David Landreth reveals that a Renaissance coin is an arena contested among multiple earlymodern discourses that each seek to encompass it, such as ontology, ethics, and politics.

• | Author: DAVID. LANDRETH, David Landreth
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: May 01, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 362 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Literary Criticism
• | ISBN-10: 0190628227
• | ISBN-13: 9780190628222