Models of Value by James Thompson
Examines the concept of value as it came to be understood in eighteenth-century England through two divergent discourses: political economy and the novel. By looking at the relationship between these two forms, this work demonstrates how value came to have such different meaning in different realms of experience.
“Models of Value makes one of those reconceptualizations of a literary and cultural field that seems obvious only in retrospect; that is to say that once one thinks of the novel’s cultural functions in relation to those of political economy, it is hard to see how past discussions of the novel have managed to ignore the crisis in ‘value’ addressed in eighteenth–century concerns with money and monetary function”-Kristina Straub, Carnegie Mellon University
James Thompson is Professor of English at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780822317210 |
| ISBN 10 | 0822317214 |
| Title | Models of Value |
| Author | James Thompson |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Duke University Press |
| Year published | 1996-01-03 |
| Number of pages | 280 |
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