Finance and Fictionality in the Early Eighteenth Century: Accounting for Defoe
ISBN-13:
9780521481540
ISBN-10:
0521481546
Author:
Sandra Sherman
Publication date:
1996
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Format:
Hardcover
236 pages
Category:
Economic History
,
Economics
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ISBN-13:
9780521481540
ISBN-10:
0521481546
Author:
Sandra Sherman
Publication date:
1996
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Format:
Hardcover
236 pages
Category:
Economic History
,
Economics
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Finance and Fictionality in the Early Eighteenth Century: Accounting for Defoe (ISBN-13: 9780521481540 and ISBN-10: 0521481546), written by authors
Sandra Sherman, was published by Cambridge University Press in 1996.
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In the early eighteenth century, the increasing dependence of society on financial credit provoked widespread anxiety. 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 the work of Daniel Defoe, which straddles both finance and literature, epitomizes the market's capacity to unsettle discourse, and to blur the distinctions between finance and fiction.
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