Finance and Fictionality in the Early Eighteenth Century : Accounting for Defoe
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0521481546
ISBN-13
9780521481540
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
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Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 4th, 1996
Print length
236 Pages
Weight
470 grams
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23.50 x 15.90 x 1.90 cms
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In the early eighteenth century, the increasing dependence of society on financial credit led to a blurring of the distinctions between finance and fictionality. The work of Daniel Defoe, which straddles finance and literature, epitomises the market's capacity to take advantage of the new instability of discourse.
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 oeuvre, 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.
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