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Usury and Fiction

Usury and Fiction

Publié le par Thomas Parisot (Source : CFP)

NEASECS\AtSECS Conference: Eighteenth-Century Speculations
Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1-4 November 2001
http://www.dal.ca/~neasecs/
Session Title: Usury and Fiction

Economic literary criticism in the last two decades has established a connection between financial and linguistic tropes, and has identified homologies between literary and economic systems of circulation, representation, and exchange. Its particular application to the eighteenth century has posited a link between the rise of credit and financial speculation, and the rise of the novel as privileged fictional medium. Our panel will focus on usury (financially defined as excessive interest on a loan) as a negatively inflected trope of relationship, contract, and investment. We welcome papers focusing on any aspect of usury, thus widely understood, and eighteenth-century fiction. Some possible lines of inquiry might be:

- metaphors of usury in literary, political, and/or economic fictions
- usury as a figure, and critique, of representation
- the novel as a medium for the depiction of usurious relationships (between economic agents, genders, classes, or nations)
- usurious contracts between writers and readers
- (excessive) aesthetic interest

Send one-page proposals (email preferred), by April 27 to Yota Batsaki, at the address below. Please include a mailing address, email address, phone number, institutional affiliation, and a list of any audiovisual requirements. You do not have to be a member of NEASECS or AtSECS to submit a proposal.

Yota Batsaki
Dept. of Comparative Literature
Boylston Hall, Ground Floor,
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA, 02138
Email: pbatsaki@fas.harvard.edu
Tel: 617-776-4692

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