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 | | Finance and Fictionality in the Early Eighteenth Century: Accounting for Defoe by Sandra Sherman ISBN-10: 9780521481540 ISBN-10: 0-521-48154-6 ISBN-13: 9780521481540 ISBN-13: 978-0-521-48154-0 Hardcover 1996-04-26 Cambridge University Press Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description In the early eighteenth century, the increasing dependence of society on financial credit provoked widespread anxiety. 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 the work of Daniel Defoe, which straddles both finance and literature, epitomizes the market's capacity to unsettle discourse, and to blur the distinctions between finance and fiction. | ||
Book Description In the early eighteenth century, the increasing dependence of society on financial credit provoked widespread anxiety. Texts of credit certificates, IOUs, bills of exchange SH 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 the work of Daniel Defoe, which straddles both finance and literature, epitomises the market's capacity to unsettle discourse, and to blur the distinctions between finance and fiction. | ||