The contemporaneous development of speculative investment and the novel in the early eighteenth century, and women's role in both.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgements; Introduction: paper credit; 1. Women, credit and the South Sea Bubble; 2. Pope, gender, and the commerce of culture; 3. Eliza Haywood and the culture of professional authorship; 4. The (gender) politics of the literary marketplace; 5. Samuel Richardson and the domestication of paper credit; Conclusion: negotiable paper; Notes; Index; Bibliography.