Finance and Fictionality in the Early Eighteenth Century

Accounting for Defoe

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Sandra Sherman

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In the early eighteenth century, the increasing dependence of society on financial credit provoked widespread anxiety. The texts of credit - stock certificates, IOUs, bills of exchange - were denominated as potential 'fictions', while the potential fictionality of other texts was measured in terms of the 'credit' they deserved. Sandra Sherman argues that in this environment finance is like fiction, employing the same tropes. She goes on to show how the work of Daniel Defoe epitomised the market's capacity to unsettle discourse, demanding and evading 'honesty' at the same time. Defoe's uvre, straddling both finance and literature, theorizes the disturbance of market discourse, elaborating strategies by which an author can remain in the market, perpetrating fiction while avoiding responsibility for doing so.

Release date NZ

April 4th, 1996

Author

Sandra Sherman

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Pages

236

Dimensions

159x235x19

ISBN-13

9780521481540

Product ID

1770477

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