Title: Writing and the rise of finance : capital satires of the early eighteenth century /
Authors: Nicholson, Colin.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press,
Year: 1994
Subjects: English literature History and criticism; Capitalism and literature Great Britain History; Finance Great Britain History; Capitalists and financiers in literature.; Satire, English History and criticism.; Economics in literature.; Finance in literature.
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.