Connor Women, Accounting and Narrative

Keeping Books in Eighteenth-Century England
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-1-134-69842-4
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Research in Gender and History

In the early eighteenth century, the household accountant was traditionally female. However, just as women were seen as financial accountants, they were also deeply associated with the literary and narrative accounting inherent in letters and diaries. These are examined alongside property, originality and the development of the early novel.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Connor, Rebecca E.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter One

1. Accounting Women

2. The Rise of Accounting

3. Accounts as Texts

4. Accountability; or, Personified Accounts

5. 'Effeminate Acheivements

Chapter Two

1. The Value of The Fair Jilt: Exchange and Specie in Aphra Behn

Chapter Three

1. Defoe's Bankrupcy

2. "Can you Apply Arithmetick to Everything?": Moll Flanders, William Petty, and 'Social Accounting'

3. Appendix: Manufactured Value

Chapter Four

1. The Feminization of Accounting: The Picaresque Vs. The Novel of Personality