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In the early eighteenth century, the increasing dependence of society on financial credit provoked widespread anxiety. The texts of credit - stock certificates, IOUs, bills of exchange - were denominated as potential 'fictions', while the potential fictionality of other texts was measured in terms of the 'credit' they deserved. Sandra Sherman argues that in this

Title : Finance and Fictionality in the Early Eighteenth Century: Accounting for Defoe
Author : Sandra Sherman
Language : en
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