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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Autore principale: Sherman, Sandra
Natura: Licensed eBooks
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996.
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