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Writing and the Rise of Finance - Capital Satires of the Early Eighteenth Century (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R2,886
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Writing and the Rise of Finance - Capital Satires of the Early Eighteenth Century (Hardcover, New): Colin Nicholson

Writing and the Rise of Finance - Capital Satires of the Early Eighteenth Century (Hardcover, New)

Colin Nicholson

Series: Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought

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The early eighteenth century saw a far-reaching financial revolution in England. In this original study, Colin Nicholson reads familiar texts such as Gulliver's Travels, The Beggar's Opera and The Dunciad as "capital satires," responding to the social and political effects of the installation of capitalist financial institutions in London. While they invested in stocks and shares, Swift, Pope and Gay conducted a campaign against the civic effects of new financial institutions such as the Bank of England and the inauguration of the National Debt. Conflict between these writers' inherited discourse of civic humanism and the transformations being undergone by their own society is shown to have had a profound effect on a number of key literary texts.

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Imprint: Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought
Release date: July 1994
First published: 1994
Authors: Colin Nicholson
Dimensions: 237 x 157 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-45323-3
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries
LSN: 0-521-45323-2
Barcode: 9780521453233

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