Writing and the Rise of Finance - Capital Satires of the Early Eighteenth Century

Klappentext An original study of the early eighteenth century's financial revolution in the literature of the period. Zusammenfassung 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 London's new capitalist financial institutions: the Bank of England! the National Debt and the South Sea Bubble disaster of 1721. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. A culture of commodities: 'Trivial Things' in The Rape of the Lock; 2. Cultivating the bubble: some investing contemporaries; 3. 'Some Very Bad Effects': The strange case of Gulliver's Travels; 4. 'Bilk'd of Virtue': The Beggar's Opera; 5. 'Abusing the City's Best Good Men': Pope's poetry of the 1730s; 6. 'Illusion on the town': Figuring out credit in The Dunciad; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: C.E. Nicholson, Colin Nicholson
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.07.1994
• EAN: 9780521453233
• ISBN: 978-0-521-45323-3
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Eighteent
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies