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The Face of Mammon - The Matter of Money in English Renaissance Literature (Hardcover)
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The Face of Mammon - The Matter of Money in English Renaissance Literature (Hardcover)
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The Face of Mammon studies the gold and silver coins of
sixteenth-century England as they are articulated in literary
writing. Landreth argues that the coinage of the sixteenth century
is a very different object from the money that we know-- 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, a Renaissance coin is an arena
contested among multiple early modern discourses that each seek to
encompass it, such as ontology, ethics, and politics. The writers
central to this study--among them Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare,
Nashe, and Donne--use the coin to demonstrate the interdependence
of these competing discourses as they converge upon a single,
ubiquitous object. For these authors, an understanding of the world
that humans make for themselves relies upon understanding how the
material world is made. The small circumference of the coin brings
these contending worlds into contact.
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