Genres of the Credit Economy : Mediating Value in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain - Mary Poovey

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Genres of the Credit Economy

Mediating Value in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain

By: Mary Poovey

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Paperback | 11 April 2008 | Edition Number 1

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How did banking, borrowing, investing, and even losing money-in other words, participating in the modern financial system-come to seem likeroutine activities of everydaylife? Genres of the Credit Economy addressesthis question by examining the history of financial instruments and representations of finance in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain.
Chronicling the process by which some of our most important conceptual categories were naturalized, Mary Poovey explores complex relationships among forms of writing that are not usually viewed together, from bills of exchange and bank checks, to realist novels and Romantic poems, to economic theory and financial journalism. Taking up all early forms of financial and monetarywriting, Poovey argues that these genres mediated for early modern Britons the operations of a market system organized around credit and debt. By arguing that genre is a critical tool for historical and theoretical analysis and an agent in the events that formed the modern world, Poovey offers a new way to appreciate the character of the credit economy and demonstrates the contribution historians and literary scholars can make to understanding its operations.
Much more than an exploration of writing on and around money, Genres of the Credit Economy offers startling insights about the evolution of disciplines and the separation of factual and fictional genres.

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"This is a splendid book, by far the most ambitious and wide-ranging of all the studies typed as 'new economic criticism.' Genres of the Credit Economy is a first-class book from one of the most important scholars of the period." - James Thompson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill"

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Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Preamble: Mediating Genres	p. 25
Imaginative Genres	p. 28
Financial Writing	p. 30
Monetary Genres	p. 35
Mediating Value	p. 57
Writing about Money in the New Credit Economy	p. 61
The Fact/Fiction Continuum	p. 77
Generic Differentiation and the Naturalization of Money	p. 87
Inciting Belief through Print	p. 93
Sir James Steuart's Principles of Political Economy: Between Fiction and Theory	p. 124
Money Talks: Thomas Bridges's Adventures of a Bank-Note	p. 144
"The Paper Age"	p. 153
The Takeoff in the Book Trade	p. 156
The Proliferation of Bank Paper	p. 161
Differential Forms	p. 165
Politicizing Paper Money	p. 171
The First Currency Radical: William Cobbett Pits Paper against Gold	p. 174
Labor Notes and a Coinage of Pottery: Robert Owen and John Bray	p. 196
Professional Political Economy and Its Popularizers	p. 219
Raising the Profile of Economic Theory: Ricardo, McCulloch, Chalmers, and John Stuart Mill	p. 223
Financial Journalism: Economic Writing for Middle-Class Readers	p. 243
W. Stanley Jevons and the Narrowing of Economic Science	p. 275
Delimiting Literature, Defining Literary Value	p. 285
Literary Value and a Hierarchy of Imaginative Genres	p. 287
Hierarchies of Reading	p. 305
Facts, Fictions, and Literary Value	p. 317
Textual Interpretation and Historical Description	p. 337
Reading Martineau's Illustrations of Political Economy: Exemplary Interpretations	p. 338
Historical Description	p. 343
Literary Appropriations	p. 353
Jane Austen's Gestural Aesthetic	p. 357
From Gesture to Formalism: Little Dorrit and Silas Marner	p. 373
The Rewards of Form: The Last Chronicle of Barset	p. 384
Coda	p. 417
Notes	p. 421
Bibliography	p. 465
Index	p. 485
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