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Genres of the Credit Economy - Mediating Value in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century Britain (Hardcover)
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Genres of the Credit Economy - Mediating Value in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century Britain (Hardcover)
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How did banking, borrowing, investing, and even losing money--in
other words, participating in the modern financial system--come to
seem like routine activities of everyday life? "Genres of the
Credit Economy" addresses this question by examining the history of
financial instruments and representations of finance in eighteenth-
and nineteenth-century Britain.
Chronicling the process by which some of our most important
conceptual categories were naturalized, Mary Poovey explores
complex relationships among forms of writing that are not usually
viewed together, from bills of exchange and bank checks, to realist
novels and Romantic poems, to economic theory and financial
journalism. Taking up all early forms of financial and monetary
writing, Poovey argues that these genres mediated for early modern
Britons the operations of a market system organized around credit
and debt. By arguing that genre is a critical tool for historical
and theoretical analysis and an agent in the events that formed the
modern world, Poovey offers a new way to appreciate the character
of the credit economy and demonstrates the contribution historians
and literary scholars can make to understanding its
operations.
Much more than an exploration of writing on and around money,
"Genres of the Credit Economy "offers startling insights about the
evolution of disciplines and the separation of factual and
fictional genres.
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