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Representing Public Credit - Credible commitment, fiction, and the rise of the financial subject (Paperback)
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Representing Public Credit - Credible commitment, fiction, and the rise of the financial subject (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
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Public credit was controversial in seventeenth- and
eighteenth-century England. It entailed new ways of thinking about
the individual in relation to the State and was for many reasons a
site of cultural negotiation and debate. At the same time, it
required commitment from participants in order to function. Some of
the debates relating to public credit, whose success was tied up in
the way it was represented, find their way into contemporary
fiction - in particular the eighteenth-century novel. This book
reads eighteenth-century fiction alongside works of political
economy in order to offer a new perspective on credible commitment
and the rise of a credit economy facilitated by public credit.
Works by authors such as Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, and
Frances Burney are explored alongside lesser-known fictional texts,
including some early it-narratives and novels of sensibility, to
give a fully rounded view of the perception of public credit within
England and its wider cultural and social implications. Strategies
for representing public credit, the book argues, can be seen as
contributing to the development of the English novel, a type of
fiction whose emphasis on the individual can also be read as
helping to produce a certain type of person, the modern financial
subject. This interdisciplinary book draws from economic history
and literary/cultural studies in order to make connections between
the development of finance and an important facet of modern Western
culture, the novel.
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