Genres of the credit economy : mediating value in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain

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Label

Genres of the credit economy : mediating value in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain

Title remainder

mediating value in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain

Statement of responsibility

Mary Poovey

Creator

• Poovey, Mary
• Poovey, Mary

Subject

• English literature -- History and criticism
• Finance -- Great Britain -- History
• Literary form -- History
• Money -- Social aspects -- Great Britain
• Money in literature
• Consumer credit -- Great Britain -- History
• Economics and literature -- Great Britain -- History

Language

eng

Summary

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

Cataloging source

CaPaEBR

Dewey number

332.0941/09033

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

HG186.G7

LC item number

P58 2008eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• standards specifications
• bibliography