Randomness, Uncertainty, and Economic Behavior: The Life of Money in Eighteenth-Century Fiction

My dissertation argues that fiction produced in England during the frequent financial crises and political volatility experienced between 1770 and 1820 both reflected and shaped the cultural anxiety occasioned by a seemingly random and increasingly uncertain world. The project begins within the hist...

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Main Author: Roy, Devjani
Format: Others
Published: UKnowledge 2013
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Online Access:http://uknowledge.uky.edu/english_etds/4
http://uknowledge.uky.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1002&context=english_etds