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Finance and Fictionality in the Early Eighteenth Century: Accounting for Defoe

Finance and Fictionality in the Early Eighteenth Century: Accounting for Defoe

Sherman, Sandra
Sandra, Sherman

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EconomicsLiterary CriticismGeneral Reference

ISBN10: 0521021421
ISBN13: 9780521021425
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Oct 20 2005
Pages: 236
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.54 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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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