{"product_id":"raving-at-usurers-anti-finance-and-the-ethics-of-uncertainty-in-england-1690-1750-hardcover","title":"Raving at Usurers: Anti-Finance and the Ethics of Uncertainty in England, 1690-1750 - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDwight Codr\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eRaving at Usurers, \u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBeginning 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 \u003ci\u003eRobinson Crusoe\u003c\/i\u003e and Henry Fielding's \u003ci\u003eTom Jones, \u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBy reading the eighteenth century in terms of risk rather than certainty, \u003ci\u003eRaving at Usurers\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDwight Codr is Associate Professor of English at the University of Connecticut.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.9 x 6.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 04, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757802062112,"sku":"9780813937809","price":81.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/ad90c3fde84658d003ad9c1caf29053f.webp?v=1780112160","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/raving-at-usurers-anti-finance-and-the-ethics-of-uncertainty-in-england-1690-1750-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}