James Thompson

Models of Value

Eighteenth-Century Political Economy and the Novel

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Produktbeschreibung

""Models of Value" makes one of those reconceptualizations of a literary and cultural field that seems obvious only in retrospect; that is to say that once one thinks of the novel's cultural functions in relation to those of political economy, it is hard to see how past discussions of the novel have managed to ignore the crisis in 'value' addressed in eighteenth-century concerns with money and monetary function."--Kristina Straub, Carnegie Mellon University

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Januar 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 153mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 653g
• ISBN-13: 9780822317111
• ISBN-10: 0822317117
• Artikelnr.: 22340133

Autorenporträt

James Thompson is Professor of English at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: Models of Value 1
1. Representation and Exchange 15
2. Money as Sign 40
3. Defoe and the Narrative of Exchange 87
4. Fielding and Property 132
5. Burney and Debt 156
Conclusion: Austen and the Novel 185
Notes 199
Works Cited 251
Index 267