عنوان

Finance and fictionality in the early eighteenth century :

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0521481546

(Number (ISBN

9780521481540

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Title Proper

Finance and fictionality in the early eighteenth century :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

accounting for Defoe /

First Statement of Responsibility

Sandra Sherman.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Cambridge University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1996.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xii, 222 p. ;

Dimensions

24 cm.

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-220) and index.

Text of Note

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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Text of Note

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 in terms of the "credit" they deserved. Sandra Sherman argues that in this environment finance is like fiction, employing the same tropes. She goes on to show how the work of Daniel Defoe epitomized the market's capacity to unsettle discourse, demanding and evading "honesty" at the same time. Defoe's oeuvre, straddling both finance and literature, theorizes the unsettlement of market discourse, elaborating strategies by which an author can remain in the market, perpetrating fiction while avoiding responsibility for doing so.

Defoe, Daniel,1661?-1731-- Knowledge-- Economics.

Economics-- England-- History-- 18th century.

Economics in literature.

Fiction-- Technique.

Finance-- England-- History-- 18th century.

Finance in literature.

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Book number

Sherman, Sandra.

Date of Transaction

20140218102533.0

Electronic name

[Book]

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