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The Face of Mammon

By Landreth

The Face of Mammon

By Landreth

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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.
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
362
Release Date:
2012-04-19
Publication Date:
2015-12-17
Publisher:
ACADEMIC
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0199773297
ISBN13:
9780199773299
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
708 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
24 cm
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