Women, Accounting and Narrative - Keeping Books in Eighteenth-Century England

Klappentext In the early eighteenth century! the household accountant was traditionally female. Socio-linguistic acts of feminized accounting are examined alongside property! originality! and the development of the early novel. Zusammenfassung In the early eighteenth century, the household accountant was traditionally female. Socio-linguistic acts of feminized accounting are examined alongside property, originality, and the development of the early novel. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter One 1. Accounting Women 2. The Rise of Accounting 3. Accounts as Texts 4. Accountability; or, Personified Accounts 5. 'Effeminate Acheivements Chapter Two 1. The Value of The Fair Jilt: Exchange and Specie in Aphra Behn Chapter Three 1. Defoe's Bankrupcy 2. Can you Apply Arithmetick to Everything?: Moll Flanders , William Petty, and 'Social Accounting' 3. Appendix: Manufactured Value Chapter Four 1. The Feminization of Accounting: The Picaresque Vs. The Novel of Personality

Product details

• Authors: Rebecca E. Connor, Rebecca Elisabeth Connor, Connor Rebecca E.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.04.2004
• EAN: 9780415170468
• ISBN: 978-0-415-17046-8
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Routledge Research in Gender and History; Routledge Research in Gender and History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Accounting / Managerial, HISTORY / Women, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, Sociolinguistics, Social and cultural history, Literary studies: general, Gender studies: women, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Gender studies: women and girls, Management accounting & bookkeeping, Management accounting, bookkeeping and auditing