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Genres of the credit economy : mediating value in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain
- Title
- Genres of the credit economy : mediating value in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain / Mary Poovey.
- Author
- Poovey, Mary.
- Publication
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
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- Description
- x, 511 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Preamble: Mediating Genres -- Imaginative Genres -- Financial Writing -- Monetary Genres -- 1. Mediating Value -- Writing about Money in the New Credit Economy -- The Fact/Fiction Continuum -- 2. Generic Differentiation and the Naturalization of Money -- Inciting Belief through Print -- Sir James Steuart's Principles of Political Economy: Between Fiction and Theory -- Money Talks: Thomas Bridges' s Adventures of a Bank-Note -- Interchapter One: "The Paper Age" -- The Takeoff in the Book Trade -- The Proliferation of Bank Paper -- Differential Forms -- 3. Politicizing Paper Money -- The First Currency Radical: William Cobbett Pits Paper against Gold -- Labor Notes and a Coinage of Pottery: Robert Owen and John Bray -- 4. Professional Political Economy and Its Popularizers -- Raising the Profile of Economic Theory: Ricardo, McCulloch, Chalmers, and John Stuart Mill -- Financial Journalism: Economic Writing for Middle-Class Readers -- W. Stanley Jevons and the Harrowing of Economic Science -- 5. Delimiting Literature, Defining Literary Value -- Literary Value and a Hierarchy of Imaginative Genres -- Hierarchies of Reading -- Facts, Fictions, and Literary Value -- Interchapter Two: Textual Interpretation and Historical Description -- Reading Martineau's Illustrations of Political Economy: Exemplary Interpretations -- Historical Description -- 6. Literary Appropriations -- Jane Austen's Gestural Aesthetic -- From Gesture to Formalism: Little Dorrit and Silas Marner -- The Rewards of Form: The Last Chronicle of Barset.
- ISBN
- 9780226675329 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0226675327 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9780226675336 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0226675335 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2007025921
- OCLC
- ocn145732945
- 145732945
- SCSB-13567812
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries