David Landreth
Biographic Data
| ID | 164538 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Landreth |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Landreth |
| SIGNATURE | LANDRETH D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Economies of Literature and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
Economies of Literature and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe: Change and Exchange. Subha Mukherji, Dunstan Roberts, Rebecca Tomlin, and George Oppitz-Trotman, eds. Crossroads of Knowledge in Early Modern Literature. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. xvi + 282 pp. €103.99. - Volume 76 Issue 3
Wit without Money in Donne and Nashe
The final chapter construes the material relation between people and their coins in terms of waste—the impulse to squander, to define one's self through what's left behind when the money is gone. This antagonistic and perverse relationship to the materiality of Renaissance money is charted by two of the wittiest writers of the 1590s, John Donne and Thomas Nashe. In Donne's early Elegies, the wasted coin is the occasion for a fantasy of endless ex…
At Home with Mammon Matter, Money, and Memory in The Faerie Queene and The Jew of Malta
In Book 2 of The Faerie Queene, the debate between the knight Sir Guyon and the demon Mammon over the value of money is expressed in terms of consumption: money proves to be a value that desires to consume all other values, cruelly disordering not only the processes of bodily sustenance but the mnemonic relation of past to future and even the metaphysical relation of matter to form. But, as Marlowe's Jew of Malta and Spenser's own reconsideration…
Crisis Before Economy
The financial experience of mid-sixteenth-century Englishmen and women was dominated by an inflation so sustained, so unprecedented, and so traumatic as to be known to modern historians as ‘the price revolution’. Contemporary writers addressing ‘this dearth which in such plenty comes, contrary to his kind’, recognized the inflation as a crisis disrupting received systems of value, one in which prices had somehow become detached from the cyclical …
The face of mammon
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The face of mammon
Wit without Money in Donne and Nashe
The final chapter construes the material relation between people and their coins in terms of waste—the impulse to squander, to define one's self through what's left behind when the money is gone. This antagonistic and perverse relationship to the materiality of Renaissance money is charted by two of the wittiest writers of the 1590s, John Donne and Thomas Nashe. In Donne's early Elegies, the wasted coin is the occasion for a fantasy of endless ex…
At Home with Mammon Matter, Money, and Memory in The Faerie Queene and The Jew of Malta
In Book 2 of The Faerie Queene, the debate between the knight Sir Guyon and the demon Mammon over the value of money is expressed in terms of consumption: money proves to be a value that desires to consume all other values, cruelly disordering not only the processes of bodily sustenance but the mnemonic relation of past to future and even the metaphysical relation of matter to form. But, as Marlowe's Jew of Malta and Spenser's own reconsideration…
Crisis Before Economy
The financial experience of mid-sixteenth-century Englishmen and women was dominated by an inflation so sustained, so unprecedented, and so traumatic as to be known to modern historians as ‘the price revolution’. Contemporary writers addressing ‘this dearth which in such plenty comes, contrary to his kind’, recognized the inflation as a crisis disrupting received systems of value, one in which prices had somehow become detached from the cyclical …
Economies of Literature and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
Economies of Literature and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe: Change and Exchange. Subha Mukherji, Dunstan Roberts, Rebecca Tomlin, and George Oppitz-Trotman, eds. Crossroads of Knowledge in Early Modern Literature. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. xvi + 282 pp. €103.99. - Volume 76 Issue 3
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