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Author Roxburgh, Natalie.

Title Representing Public Credit
Published Taylor and Francis, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (240 pages) : illustrations
Series Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
Routledge frontiers of political economy.
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Literature review; Selection of texts; 1 Historical contexts for "the economic model"; Economically constituted property and the fiction of the modern state; On interest: fictions of the individual and the public good; On money: mediating individual interest; Credible commitment and the Bank of England; Public opinion and the fiction of disinterestedness; Part I Framing credible commitment through fiction; 2 The public good, credible framing, and Daniel Defoe's fictions
The virtuous projectorA disinterested and depersonalized state: An Essay upon Publick Credit; A call for better management: Lady Credit in The Review; The South Sea Bubble and The Compleat English Tradesman; Credible framing and fiction; 3 The Bank of England, virtue, and the Pamela controversy; The Bank of England in texts; The Bank of England as text; Accounting and ideology in Pamela; The form of Pamela's virtue; Representing the counter-fact in the Pamela controversy; The account as contract in Clarissa; From virtue to the virtual; Part II Framing fiction through credible commitment
4 Paper contracts, public fictions, and the money it-narrativePaper credit or paper money?; The contractual banknote; Public credit and paper money in political economy; Credit, consumption, and the it-narrative; Chrysal: naturalizing alchemy; Adventures of a Bank-Note: the virtual publics of public credit; 5 Abstraction, social mediation, and the novel of sensibility; People of the Royal Exchange: social mediation in David Simple; Rethinking quixotism and sensibility through public credit; Towards a social critique of credit; Critical discourses on public credit: luxury and consumerism
Cecilia and the rise of the financial subjectPublic credit and the rise of the novel; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
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Subject Finance, Public -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
Credit -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
Finance -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
Finance in literature -- History -- 18th century
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Public Finance.
Credit
Finance
Finance in literature
Finance, Public
Great Britain
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1317294882
9781317294887