Author: Walter WalshPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
The greater parables of Tolstoy, with interpretations
Author: Walter WalshRavings of an Uncommon Mind
Author: Gene ToewsPublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1514479117
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 107
Book Description
This is a book of poems. They're mostly on the dark side. They may educate you, inspire you, or repulse you.
Raving at Usurers
Author: Dwight CodrPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813937817
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
In Raving at Usurers, Dwight Codr explores the complex intersection of religion, economics, ethics, and literature in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England. Codr offers an alternative to the orthodox story of secular economic modernity's emergence in this key time and place, locating in early modern anti-usury literature an "ethic of uncertainty" that viewed economic transactions as ethical to the extent that their outcomes were uncertain. Codr’s development of an "anti-financial" reading practice reveals that the financial revolution might be said to have grown out of—rather than in spite of—early modern anti-usury and Protestant ethics. Beginning with the reconstruction of a major controversy provoked by the delivery of a sermon against usury in the financial heart of London, Codr goes on to show not only how the ethic at the core of the discourse surrounding usury in the eighteenth century was culturally mediated but also how that ethic may be used as a lens to better understand major works of eighteenth-century literature. Codr offers radically new perspectives on Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe and Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones, examining how these novels reacted to emergent financial ways of knowing and meaning as well as how the texts formally bear out the possibility of a truly open and uncertain future. By reading the eighteenth century in terms of risk rather than certainty, Raving at Usurers offers a reassessment of what has been called the financial revolution in England and provides a revisionist account of the intimate connection between risk, ethics, and economics in the period.
The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, Art, and Finance
Author: The New and Complete Dictionary of the English Language ...
Author: John AshPublisher:
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 628
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Author: Samuel Rogers