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9780521036498

The Character of Credit: Personal Debt in English Culture, 1740–1914

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    9780521036498

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    0521036496

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2007-10-22
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Summary

Personal credit relations were ubiquitous in English consumer markets, binding family members, friends, neighbours, customers and tradesmen in tangled lines of mutual obligation. In this study of the social history of personal debt and credit, Margot Finn reveals the pre-eminence of social individuals - men, women and children whose ability to engage in credit contracts was contingent upon their dependent social status. Using a wide range of printed and manuscript sources, and paying particular attention to distinctions of gender and of class, Finn examines English consumer culture from three interlocking perspectives: representations of debt in novels, diaries and autobiographical memoirs; the transformation of imprisonment for debt; and the use of small claims courts to mediate disputes between debtors and creditors. This major new study of personal debt from 1740 to 1914 will appeal to social, legal and cultural historians, literary scholars and those interested in the history of consumer culture.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations
List of tables
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction
Debt and Credit in English Memory and Imagination
Fictions of debt and credit, 1740-1914
Debt and credit in diaries and autobiographies
Imprisonment for Debt and the Economic Individual
'Mansions of misery': the unreformed debtors' prison
Discipline or abolish? Reforming imprisonment for debt
Petty Debts and the Modernisation of English Law
'A kind of parliamentary magic': eighteenth-century courts of conscience
From courts of conscience to county courts: small-claims litigation in the nineteenth century
Market moralities: tradesmen, credit and the courts in Victorian and Edwardian England
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
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