ISBN: 9780521453233 - writing and the rise of finance: capital satires of the early eighteenth century (cambridge studies in eighteenth-century english literature and thought) (4 Ergebnisse)

1st Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xv, 219 pages: illustrations; 23 cm. Contents: 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. Subjects: Pope, Alexander 1688-1744 Criticism and interpretation. English literature 18th century History and criticism. Capitalism and literature Great Britain History 18th century. Finance Great Britain History 18th century. Capitalists and financiers in literature. Satire, English History and criticism. Economics in literature. Finance in literature. Capitalism and literature. Capitalists and financiers in literature. Satire, English History and criticism. Genre: Criticism, interpretation, etc. History. Illustrated. 1 Kg. …

1st Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xv, 219 pages: illustrations; 23 cm. Contents: 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. Subjects: Pope, Alexander 1688-1744 Criticism and interpretation. English literature 18th century History and criticism. Capitalism and literature Great Britain History 18th century. Finance Great Britain History 18th century. Capitalists and financiers in literature. Satire, English History and criticism. Economics in literature. Finance in literature. Capitalism and literature. Capitalists and financiers in literature. Satire, English History and criticism. Genre: Criticism, interpretation, etc. History. Illustrated. 1 Kg. …

Zustand: New. An original study of the early eighteenth century's financial revolution in the literature of the period. Series Editor(s): Erskine-Hill, Howard; Richetti, John. Series: Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature & Thought. Num Pages: 240 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 520. . 1994. First Edition. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - The early eighteenth century saw a far-reaching financial revolution in England, whose impact on the literature of the period has hitherto been relatively unexplored. 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 the installation of capitalist financial institutions in London. The founding of the Bank of England and the inauguration of the National Debt permanently altered the political economy of England: the South Sea Bubble disaster of 1721 educated a political generation into the money markets. While they invested in stocks and shares, Swift, Pope and Gay conducted a campaign against the civic effects of these new financial institutions. Conflict between these writers' inherited discourse of civic humanism and the transformations being undergone by their own society, is shown to have had a profound effect on a number of key literary texts.…