Finance and Fictionality in the Early Eighteenth Century
Subtitle: Accounting for Defoe
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: October 20, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780521021425
Subjects: Economic History; Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; England; Business & Economics; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Business/Economics; Finance; Semiotics & Theory; Business & Economics / Economic History; Business & Economics-Economic History; Defoe, Daniel, --1661?-1731--Knowledge--Econo; Defoe, Daniel,--1661?-1731--Knowledge--Economics; Literary Criticism & Collections / Theory; 18th century; Economics; Economics in literature; History
First sentence: For twenty-four years beginning in 1689, England was almost continually at war with the Continent, radically increasing the National Debt.