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      The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer: Ideology as Style in the Works of Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley and Jane Austen

      Mary Poovey

      A brilliant, original, and powerful book… . This is the most skillful integration of feminism and Marxist literary criticism that I know of. So writes critic Stephen Greenblatt about The…

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      The Financial System in Nineteenth-Century Britain

      The Financial System in Nineteenth-Century Britain provides an introduction to banks and banking; and the money market, company law and financial fraud. The book consists of articles taken from a…

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      Genres of the Credit Economy: Mediating Value in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain

      Mary Poovey

      How did banking, borrowing, investing, and even losing money - in other words, participating in the modern financial system - come to seem like routine activities of everyday life? This…

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      Making a Social Body: British Cultural Formation, 1830-1864

      Mary Poovey

      Drawing on both literature and social reform texts, the author analyzes the organization of knowledge during the Victorian period and explores its role in the emergence of the idea of…

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      A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society

      Mary Poovey

      Showing the epistemological conditions that have made modern, social and economic knowledge possible, this text explores questions such as, how did fact become modernity’s most favoured unit of knowledge? .

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      Uneven Developments: The Ideological Work of Gender in Mid-Victorian England

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      Mary Poovey’s The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer has become a standard text in feminist literary discourse. In Uneven Developments Poovey turns to broader historical concerns in an analysis…

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      A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society

      Mary Poovey

      Showing the epistemological conditions that have made modern, social and economic knowledge possible, this text explores questions such as, how did fact become modernity’s most favoured unit of knowledge? .

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      Making a Social Body: British Cultural Formation, 1830-1864

      Mary Poovey

      Drawing on both literature and social reform texts, the author analyzes the organization of knowledge during the Victorian period and explores its role in the emergence of the idea of…

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      Finance in America: An Unfinished Story

      Mary Poovey,Kevin R. Brine

      The economic crisis of 2008 led to an unprecedented focus on the world of high finance-and revealed it to be far more arcane and influential than most people could ever…

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      Debt: Ethics, the Environment, and the Economy

      Explores the concept of indebtedness in its various senses and from a wide range of perspectives

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      Debt: Ethics, the Environment, and the Economy

      Explores the concept of indebtedness in its various senses and from a wide range of perspectives

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      Representation, Heterodoxy, and Aesthetics: Essays in Honor of Ronald Paulson

      This book is a wide-ranging study of British literature and art from the late seventeenth through the early nineteenth centuries, one that stresses the connections between visual and verbal representation.

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