Title Writing and the rise of finance : capital satires of the early eighteenth century / Colin Nicholson

Published Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1994

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Description xv, 219 pages : il. ; 24 cm Series Cambridge studies in eighteenth-century English literature and thought ; 21 Cambridge studies in eighteenth-century English literature and thought ; 21 Contents 1. A culture of commodities: 'trivial things' in The Rape of the Lock -- 2. Cultivating the bubble: some investing contemporaries -- 3. 'Some very bad effects': the strange case of Gulliver's Travels -- 4. 'Bilk'd of virtue': The Beggar's Opera -- 5. 'Abusing the city's best good men': Pope's poetry of the 1730s -- 6. 'Illusion on the town': figuring out credit in The Dunciad Analysis English literature Special subjects Economics Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-211) and index Subject Capitalism and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century. Capitalists and financiers in literature. Economics in literature. English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism. Finance in literature. Finance -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century. Satire, English -- History and criticism. LC no. 93027263 ISBN 0521453232

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