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Writing and the Rise of Finance

by Colin Nicholson

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The early eighteenth century saw a far-reaching financial revolution in England. In this original study, Colin Nicholson reads familiar texts such as Gulliver''s Travels, The Beggar''s Opera and The Dunciad as "capital satires," responding to the soc... Read more
The early eighteenth century saw a far-reaching financial revolution in England. In this original study, Colin Nicholson reads familiar texts such as Gulliver''s Travels, The Beggar''s Opera and The Dunciad as "capital satires," responding to the social and political effects of the installation of capitalist financial institutions in London. While they invested in stocks and shares, Swift, Pope and Gay conducted a campaign against the civic effects of new financial institutions such as the Bank of England and the inauguration of the National Debt. Conflict between these writers'' inherited discourse of civic humanism and the transformations being undergone by their own society is shown to have had a profound effect on a number of key literary texts. Less

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File size9.33 X 6.18 X 0.91 in
Print pages240
PublisherCambridge University Press
Publication date July 14, 1994
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780521453233
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