Securing the Commonwealth examines how eighteenth-century American
writers -- including Cotton Mather, Benjamin Franklin, Royall
Tyler, Charles Brockden Brown, and Judith Sargent Murray --
understood the highly speculative financial times in which they
lived. Spanning a century of cultural and literary life, this study
shows how the era's literature commonly depicted an American ethos
of risk taking and borrowing as the peculiar product of New World
daring and the exigencies of revolution and nation building.
"An incisive new study... Baker conceptualizes her readings in
pathbreaking ways." -- American Literature
"A thought-provoking gem of a book... All historians and
literary critics with an interest in eighteenth-century economic
culture will want to read it." -- William and Mary Quarterly
"Baker's argument is instructive and well founded." -- Journal
of American History
"Both a primer educating one into the financial thinking of
early Anglo-America and a testament to the energy and creativity
with which successive generations of provincials imagined commerce
as a process of mediation." -- Early American Literature
"Baker has written an incisive, provocative, sparkling book." --
American Antiquarian Society
"Historically astute study." -- Journal of the Early
Republic
"Baker brings a fresh and critical eye to works already
well-known to specialists but probably unfamiliar to historians in
general." -- Journal of Interdisciplinary History
"Astute and surprisingly lively volume... Highly recommended."
-- Choice
Jennifer J. Baker is an assistant professor of English at New
York University.
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