Women, Accounting and Narrative : Keeping Books in Eighteenth-Century England

ISBN-13: 9780415170468 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 214 str.

Rebecca Elisabeth Connor

Opis

In the early 18th century, the household accountant was traditionally female. However, just as women were seen as financial accountants, they were also deeply associated with the literary and narrative accounting inherent in letters and diaries. In this text, these are all examined alongside property, originality, and the development of the early novel.

Spis treści

Chapter One 1. Accounting Women 2. The Rise of Accounting 3. Accounts as Texts 4. Accountability; or, Personified Accounts 5. 'Effeminate Acheivements Chapter Two 1. The Value of The Fair Jilt: Exchange and Specie in Aphra Behn Chapter Three 1. Defoe's Bankrupcy 2. Can you Apply Arithmetick to Everything?: Moll Flanders , William Petty, and 'Social Accounting' 3. Appendix: Manufactured Value Chapter Four 1. The Feminization of Accounting: The Picaresque Vs. The Novel of Personality

O autorze

Rebecca E. Connor