Finance and fictionality in the early eighteenth century : accounting for Defoe /

In the early eighteenth century, the increasing dependence of society on financial credit provoked widespread anxiety. The texts of credit - stock certificates, IOUs, bills of exchange - were denominated as potential 'fictions', while the potential fictionality of other texts was measured...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Sherman, Sandra
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Subjects:
Defoe, Daniel, > 1661?-1731 > Knowledge > Economics.
Defoe, Daniel, > 1661.-1731.
Defoe, Daniel, > 1661?-1731
1700-1799
Economics > England > History > 18th century.
Finance > England > History > 18th century.
Economics in literature.
Finance in literature.
Fiction > Technique.
Économie politique > Angleterre > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Finances > Angleterre > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Économie politique dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Economics
Economics in literature
Fiction > Technique
Finance
Finance in literature
England
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Credit and its discontents: the credit/fiction homology
  • 2. Defoe and fictionality
  • 3. Credit and honesty in The Compleat English Tradesman
  • 4. Fictions of stability
  • 5. Lady Credit's reprise: Roxana.

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