| Description |
1 online resource (x, 511 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Finance -- Great Britain -- History
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Consumer credit -- Great Britain -- History
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Money in literature.
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Money -- Social aspects -- Great Britain
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Economics and literature -- Great Britain -- History
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Literary form -- History
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English literature -- History and criticism.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Finance.
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Consumer credit
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Economics and literature
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English literature
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Finance
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Literary form
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Money in literature
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Money -- Social aspects
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Great Britain
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780226675213 |
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0226675211 |
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1281966231 |
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9781281966230 |
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9786611966232 |
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6611966234 |
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