James Thompson examines the concept of value as it came to be understood in eighteenth-century England through two emerging and divergent discourses: political economy and the novel. By looking at the relationship between these two developing forms--one having to do with finance, the other with romance--Thompson demonstrates how value came to have such different meaning in different realms of experience. A highly original rethinking of the origins of the English novel, "Models of Value" shows the novel's importance in remapping English culture according to the separate spheres of public and...
James Thompson examines the concept of value as it came to be understood in eighteenth-century England through two emerging and divergent discourses: ...
James Thompson examines the concept of value as it came to be understood in eighteenth-century England through two emerging and divergent discourses: political economy and the novel. By looking at the relationship between these two developing forms--one having to do with finance, the other with romance--Thompson demonstrates how value came to have such different meaning in different realms of experience. A highly original rethinking of the origins of the English novel, "Models of Value" shows the novel's importance in remapping English culture according to the separate spheres of public and...
James Thompson examines the concept of value as it came to be understood in eighteenth-century England through two emerging and divergent discourses: ...
