Genres of the Credit Economy by Mary Poovey
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.
"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"
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780226675336 |
| ISBN 10 | 0226675335 |
| Title | Genres of the Credit Economy |
| Author | Mary Poovey |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | The University of Chicago Press |
| Year published | 2008-04-01 |
| Number of pages | 496 |
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