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Genres of the Credit Economy
Mary Poovey
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Description for Genres of the Credit Economy
Paperback. 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? This title addresses this question by examining the history of financial instruments and representations of finance in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain. Num Pages: 496 pages, 6 halftones. BIC Classification: DS; KC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 37. Weight in Grams: 804.
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. ... Read more
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. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226675336
SKU
V9780226675336
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Ref
99-50
About Mary Poovey
Mary Poovey is the Samuel Rudin Professor in the Humanities and professor of English at New York University and author of, most recently, A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society.
Reviews for Genres of the Credit Economy
"This is a splendid book, by far the most ambitious and wide-ranging of all the studies typed as 'new economic criticism.' Genres of the Credit Economy is a first-class book from one of the most important scholars of the period." - James Thompson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill"