In Raving at Usurers, Dwight Codr explores the complex intersection of religion, economics, ethics, and literature in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England. Codr offers an alternative to the orthodox story of secular economic modernity's emergence in this key time and place, locating in early modern anti-usury literature an -ethic of uncertainty- that viewed economic transactions as ethical to the extent that their outcomes were uncertain. Codr's development of an -anti-financial- reading practice reveals that the financial revolution might be said to have grown out...
In Raving at Usurers, Dwight Codr explores the complex intersection of religion, economics, ethics, and literature in late seventeenth- and...