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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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1996.
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Агуулга:
- 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.