04343nam 2200757 a 450 991081286480332120200520144314.097866119662321-281-96623-10-226-67521-110.7208/9780226675213(CKB)1000000000692826(EBL)408295(OCoLC)309868528(SSID)ssj0000161795(PQKBManifestationID)11161363(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000161795(PQKBWorkID)10198444(PQKB)11562774(StDuBDS)EDZ0000117449(MiAaPQ)EBC408295(DE-B1597)523426(DE-B1597)9780226675213(Au-PeEL)EBL408295(CaPaEBR)ebr10266071(CaONFJC)MIL196623(EXLCZ)99100000000069282620070622d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrGenres of the credit economy mediating value in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain /Mary Poovey1st ed.Chicago University of Chicago Press20081 online resource (523 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-226-67532-7 0-226-67533-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PREAMBLE. Mediating Genres -- CHAPTER ONE. Mediating Value -- CHAPTER TWO. Generic Differentiation and the Naturalization of Money -- INTERCHAPTER ONE. "The Paper Age" -- CHAPTER THREE. Politicizing Paper Money -- CHAPTER FOUR. Professional Political Economy and Its Popularizers -- CHAPTER FIVE. Delimiting Literature,Defining Literary Value -- INTERCHAPTER. TWO Textual Interpretation and Historical Description -- CHAPTER SIX. Literary Appropriations -- CODA -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEXHow 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. FinanceGreat BritainHistoryConsumer creditGreat BritainHistoryMoney in literatureMoneySocial aspectsGreat BritainEconomics and literatureGreat BritainHistoryLiterary formHistoryEnglish literatureHistory and criticismFinanceHistory.Consumer creditHistory.Money in literature.MoneySocial aspectsEconomics and literatureHistory.Literary formHistory.English literatureHistory and criticism.332.0941/09033Poovey Mary149338MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910812864803321Genres of the credit economy4086627UNINA