Writing and the rise of finance: capital satires of the early eighteenth century

Abstract

Preface Abbreviations Introduction 1. A culture of commodities: 'Trivial Things' in The Rape of the Lock 2. Cultivating the bubble: some investing contemporaries 3. 'Some Very Bad Effects': The strange case of Gulliver's Travels 4. 'Bilk'd of Virtue': The Beggar's Opera 5. 'Abusing the City's Best Good Men': Pope's poetry of the 1730s 6. 'Illusion on the town': Figuring out credit in The Dunciad Bibliography Index.