Writing and the Rise of Finance

Capital Satires of the Early Eighteenth Century

By:

Colin Nicholson

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Hardback

Series:

Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought

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The early eighteenth century saw a far-reaching financial revolution in England. 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. While they invested in stocks and shares, Swift, Pope and Gay conducted a campaign against the civic effects of new financial institutions such as the Bank of England and the inauguration of the National Debt. 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.

Release date Australia

July 14th, 1994

Author

Colin Nicholson

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Pages

240

Series

Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought

Dimensions

157x237x23

ISBN-13

9780521453233

Product ID

2394674

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