Underwriting - 9780804750899
Un libro in lingua di Eric Wertheimer edito da Stanford Univ Pr, 2006
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This book focuses on the way literary texts articulate embedded cultural assumptions about monetary value and reflect the logic of certain economic practices. In its simplest formulation, Underwriting is an investigation of the cultural history of insurance in early America. It seeks a large part of that cultural history in the lives and works of five American authors of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: Benjamin Franklin, Phillis Wheatley, Noah Webster, Herman Melville, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. It hinges on an odd-sounding assumption: that insurance, as a textual procedure requiring signatures to conserve property, is a writing business, theoretically and practically. Insurance articulates a nexus (in the form of contractual and monetary obligations) between property and text, attempting to mark and reconcile with its voracious application of assurances these two cornerstones of capitalist logic. The plot of Underwriting that Wertheimer pursues is then manifold: a meditation on theories of writing; a cultural and social history of the practices that make mutually defining modes of loss and reparation profitable and pleasurable; and a reading of certain literary texts that might lead us to new understandings of the relationship between artistic and commercial discourses in America.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Underwriting
- Sottotitolo: The Poetics of Insurance in America, 1722-1872
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Eric Wertheimer
- Editore: Stanford Univ Pr
- Collana: Stanford Univ Pr (Hardcover)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 31 Maggio '06
- Genere: LITERARY CRITICISM
- Argomenti : American literature Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 History and criticism Insurance and literature United States History 18th century Insurance and literature United States History 19th century
- Pagine: 187
- Dimensioni mm: 228 x 158 x 12
- ISBN-10: 0804750890
- EAN-13: 9780804750899