{"product_id":"genres-of-the-credit-economy-mary-poovey-9780226675336","title":"Genres of the Credit Economy: Mediating Value in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain","description":"How did banking, borrowing, investing, and even losing money--in other words, participating in the modern financial system--come to seem like\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eroutine activities of everyday\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003elife? \u003ci\u003eGenres of the Credit Economy\u003c\/i\u003e addresses\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003ethis question by examining the history of financial instruments and representations of finance in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain. \u003cbr\u003eChronicling the process by which some of our most important conceptual categories were naturalized, Mary Poovey explores complex relationships among forms of writing that are not usually viewed together, from bills of exchange and bank checks, to realist novels and Romantic poems, to economic theory and financial journalism. Taking up all early forms of financial and monetary\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003ewriting, Poovey argues that these genres mediated for early modern Britons the operations of a market system organized around credit and debt. By arguing that genre is a critical tool for historical and theoretical analysis and an agent in the events that formed the modern world, Poovey offers a new way to appreciate the character of the credit economy and demonstrates the contribution historians and literary scholars can make to understanding its operations.\u003cbr\u003eMuch more than an exploration of writing on and around money, \u003ci\u003eGenres of the Credit Economy \u003c\/i\u003eoffers startling insights about the evolution of disciplines and the separation of factual and fictional genres.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mary Poovey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226675335\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226675336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 496\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.52lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 6.01w x 1.07d","brand":"Mary Poovey","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43913442689279,"sku":"9780226675336","price":37.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_d0e26726-ecb0-4731-8016-f72a2077319a.jpg?v=1680620429","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/genres-of-the-credit-economy-mary-poovey-9780226675336","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}