{"product_id":"models-of-value-9780822317111","title":"Models of Value","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExamines the concept of value as it came to be understood in eighteenth-century England through two divergent discourses: political economy and the novel. This work shows the novel's importance in remapping English culture according to the separate spheres of public and domestic life, men's and women's concerns, money and emotion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eModels of Value\u003c\/i\u003e makes one of those reconceptualizations of a literary and cultural field that seems obvious only in retrospect; that is to say that once one thinks of the novel’s cultural functions in relation to those of political economy, it is hard to see how past discussions of the novel have managed to ignore the crisis in ‘value’ addressed in eighteenth–century concerns with money and monetary function.”—Kristina Straub, Carnegie Mellon University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments        vii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Models of Value        1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Representation and Exchange        15\u003cbr\u003e 2. Money as Sign        40\u003cbr\u003e 3. Defoe and the Narrative of Exchange        87\u003cbr\u003e 4. Fielding and Property        132\u003cbr\u003e 5. Burney and Debt        156\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Austen and the Novel        185\u003cbr\u003e Notes        199\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited        251\u003cbr\u003e Index        267","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406017143127,"sku":"9780822317111","price":74.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822317111.jpg?v=1730494255","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/models-of-value-9780822317111","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}