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

In the early eighteenth century, the increasing dependence of society on financial credit provoked widespread anxiety. Texts of credit certificates, IOUs, bills of exchange SH 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, epitomises the market's capacity to unsettle discourse, and to blur the distinctions between finance and fiction.Read More

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  • 0521021421
  • 9780521021425
  • Sandra Sherman
  • 20 October 2005
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 236
  • New Ed
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