Representing Public Credit: Credible Commitment, Fiction, and the Rise of the Financial Subject

ISBN-13: 9780367597245 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 206 str.

Natalie Roxburgh

Opis

Public credit was controversial in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England. It entailed new ways of thinking about the individual in relation to the State and was for many reasons a site of cultural negotiation and debate. At the same time, it required commitment from participants in order to function. Some of the debates relating to public

Spis treści

1. Historical Contexts for "The Economic Model" 2. The Public Good, Credible Framing, and Daniel Defoe’s Fictions 3. The Bank of England, Virtue, and the Pamela Controversy Chapter 4. Paper Contracts, Public Fictions, and the Money It-Narrative 5. Abstraction, Social Mediation, and the Novel of Sensibility

O autorze

Natalie Roxburgh is a research fellow at the University of Oldenburg, Germany.