Genres of the credit economy: mediating value in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain
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Beteilige Person: Poovey, Mary (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Chicago University of Chicago Press 2008
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Acknowledgments; Introduction; PREAMBLE: Mediating Genres; ONE: Mediating Value; TWO: Generic Differentiation and the Naturalization of Money; INTERCHAPTER ONE: "The Paper Age"; THREE: Politicizing Paper Money; FOUR: Professional Political Economy and Its Popularizers; FIVE: Delimiting Literature, Defining Literary Value; INTERCHAPTER TWO: Textual Interpretation and Historical Description; SIX: Literary Appropriations; CODA; Notes; Bibliography; Index
How did banking, borrowing, investing, and even losing money--in other words, participating in the modern financial system--come to seem like routine activities of everyday life? Genres of the Credit Economy addresses this question by examining the history of financial instruments and representations of finance in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain. Chronicling the process by which some of our most important conceptual categories were naturalized, Mary Poovey explores complex relationships among forms of writing that are not usually viewed together, from bills of exchange and bank checks
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (x, 511 pages)
ISBN:0226675211
0226675335
9780226675213
9780226675336