The character of credit : personal debt in English culture, 1740-1914 / Margot C. Finn.

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003.

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English prose literature -- History and criticism.

Economics and literature -- Great Britain -- History.

Consumption (Economics) -- Great Britain -- History.

Finance, Personal -- Great Britain -- History.

Consumption (Economics) in literature.

Credit -- Great Britain -- History.

Debt -- Great Britain -- History.

Economics in literature.

Debt in literature.

Great Britain -- Economic conditions.

Part I. Debt and credit in English memory and imagination: 1. Fictions of debt and credit, 1740-1914

2. Debt and credit in diaries and autobiographies

Part II. Imprisonment for debt and the economic individual: 3. Mansions of misery: the unreformed debtors' prison

4. Discipline or abolish: Reforming imprisonment for debt

Part III. Petty debts and the modernisation of English law: 5. A kind of parliamentary magic: eighteenth-century courts of conscience

6. From courts of conscience to county courts: small-claims litigation in the nineteenth century

7. Market moralities: tradesmen, credit and the courts in Victorian and Edwardian England.

Includes bibliography and index.

0521823420

xii, 362 p. : ill.