Authorship, Commerce, and Gender in Early Eighteenth-Century England - A Culture of Paper Credit

Klappentext The contemporaneous development of speculative investment and the novel in the early eighteenth century! and women's role in both. Zusammenfassung Catherine Ingrassia looks at the contemporaneous development of speculative investment and the popular novel in the early eighteenth century. She shows that women were actively involved in both! thus gaining access to important new models for their social! sexual! and economic interaction. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Introduction: paper credit; 1. Women, credit and the South Sea Bubble; 2. Pope, gender, and the commerce of culture; 3. Eliza Haywood and the culture of professional authorship; 4. The (gender) politics of the literary marketplace; 5. Samuel Richardson and the domestication of paper credit; Conclusion: negotiable paper; Notes; Index; Bibliography.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Catherine Ingrassia, Catherine (Virginia Commonwealth Univer Ingrassia, Catherine E. Ingrassia, Ingrassia Catherine
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 17.11.2005
• EAN: 9780521023016
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02301-6
• Seiten: 244
• Themen: Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft; England, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, C 1700 To C 1800, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form