Women, Accounting and Narrative: Keeping Books in Eighteenth-Century England

by Rebecca E. Connor

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415513630
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/11/2011
Series:	Routledge Research in Gender and History
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Rebecca E. Connor

Table of Contents

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