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<br> I don't know what to admire more: David Landreth's nuanced account of price inflation in the sixteenth century, his detailed descriptions of the debasement and clipping of coinage, his philosophical grasp of the ontology of the money form, or his striking and original readings of early modern authors. This is an indispensable contribution to our understanding of economy and literature. --Richard Halpern, author of Shakespeare's Perfume: Sodomy and Sublimity in the Sonnets, Wilde, Freud, and Lacan<p><br> If, as the saying goes, 'money talks, ' its most loquacious avatar is the Mammon of early modern writing. And Mammon's most astute listener is David Landreth, who hears in the prosopopeia that lends voice to early modern money the prehistory of capitalist conceptions of matter, value and social relations. --Jonathan Gil Harris, author of Shakespeare and Literary Theory<p><br> Landreth offers a fascinating account of the ways in which the matter of money mattered in Tudor England

<br> I don't know what to admire more: David Landreth's nuanced account of price inflation in the sixteenth century, his detailed descriptions of the debasement and clipping of coinage, his philosophical grasp of the ontology of the money form, or his striking and original readings of early modern authors. This is an indispensable contribution to our understanding of economy and literature. --Richard Halpern, author of Shakespeare's Perfume: Sodomy and Sublimity in the Sonnets, Wilde, Freud, and Lacan<p><br> If, as the saying goes, 'money talks, ' its most loquacious avatar is the Mammon of early modern writing. And Mammon's most astute listener is David Landreth, who hears in the prosopopeia that lends voice to early modern money the prehistory of capitalist conceptions of matter, value and social relations. --Jonathan Gil Harris, author of Shakespeare and Literary Theory<p><br> Landreth offers a fascinating account of the ways in which the matter of money mattered in Tudor England by revealing the many faces Mammon assumed in a wide array of literary and cultural texts. We have always known that money talks; Landreth teaches us how to listen. --Natasha Korda, author of Labors Lost: Women's Work and the Early Modern English Stage<p><br>

[a] thoroughly researched and compellingly framed study finely conceived Barbara Sebek, Review of English Studies a theoretically and historically rigorous account ... The Matter of Money is brilliant, wide-ranging, difficult, and sometimes exhilarating; it is a book that makes a major contribution to recent scholarship on economy and material culture. Garrett A. Sullivan, SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 [An] important study ... there is no more topical concern today than the morality of capitalist finance, and works such as these can teach us how that force was regarded by the first generations to be exposed to its power. David Hawkes, SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 a fascinating historicist account of early modern English coins and their place in the literature of this period ... penetreting and lively ... much more than a study of the sixteenth-century English economy, ambitious that alone would be. Landreth shows how something as ubiquitous in the culture as money is pervasive in the literature, too. Sarah Dewar-Watson, Times Literary Supplement [a] striking, consistently intelligent study ... this is a book that Elizabethanists in general, and Shakespeareans in particular, will not want to miss ... Highly recommended. E.D. Hill, Choice The Face of Mammon is an important and timely book, relevant both for how it illuminates the often neglected historicity of money and for its strikingly original and persuasive new readings of how currency functions in some of the most studied works of Elizabethan literature. Peter Remien, Spenser Review compelling and wide-ranging readings Cordula Lemke, Shakespeare Jahrbuch

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David Landreth is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California at Berkeley.

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