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Finance and Fictionality in the Early Eighteenth Century : Accounting for Defoe
Finance and Fictionality in the Early Eighteenth Century Accounting for Defoe
Author: Sandra Sherman
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 t...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780521021425
ISBN-10: 0521021421
Publication Date: 10/20/2005
Pages: 234
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Paperback
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