Real Money and Romanticism

Real Money and Romanticism
Author: Matthew Rowlinson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2010-05-27
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0521193796

Modern systems of paper money and intellectual property became established in the Romantic period. Matthew Rowlinson shows how a new conception of material artefacts as the bearers of abstract value shaped Romantic conceptions of character, material culture and labour.