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An edition of Finance and fictionality in the early eighteenth century (1996)

Finance and fictionality in the early eighteenth century

accounting for Defoe

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In the early eighteenth century, the increasing dependence of society on financial credit provoked widespread anxiety. The texts of credit - stock certificates, IOUs, bills of exchange - 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 in this environment finance is like fiction, employing the same tropes.

She goes on to show how the work of Daniel Defoe epitomized the market's capacity to unsettle discourse, demanding and evading "honesty" at the same time. Defoe's oeuvre, straddling both finance and literature, theorizes the unsettlement of market discourse, elaborating strategies by which an author can remain in the market, perpetrating fiction while avoiding responsibility for doing so.

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Economics, Economics in literature, Fiction, Finance, Finance in literature, History, Knowledge, Technique, Defoe, daniel, 1661?-1731, Economics, history, Finance, great britain, Fiction, technique, Finance, history, Knowledge and learning

People

Daniel Defoe (1661?-1731)

Places

England

Times

18th century
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Finance and Fictionality in the Early Eighteenth Century: Accounting for Defoe
2011, Cambridge University Press
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Finance and Fictionality in the Early Eighteenth Century: Accounting for Defoe
2010, Cambridge University Press
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Finance and Fictionality in the Early Eighteenth Century: Accounting for Defoe
October 20, 2005, Cambridge University Press
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Finance and Fictionality in the Early Eighteenth Century: Accounting for Defoe
1996, Cambridge University Press
in English
Cover of: Finance and fictionality in the early eighteenth century
Finance and fictionality in the early eighteenth century: accounting for Defoe
1996, Cambridge University Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-220) and index.

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Cambridge [England], New York

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Dewey Decimal Class
823/.5
Library of Congress
PR3408.E25 S54 1996

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xii, 222 p. ;
Number of pages
222

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL1277511M
ISBN 10
0521481546
LCCN
95009217
OCLC/WorldCat
187471587
Goodreads
4520660

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OL3750427W

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