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Securing the Commonwealth

Debt, Speculation, and Writing in the Making of Early America
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The book examines how eighteenth-century American writers understood the highly speculative financial times in which they lived.

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Castle BuildingPart I: New World Ventures1. Crisis and Faith in the Puritan Society2. Making Much of Nothing in the ChesapeakePart II: The Price of Independence3. Benjamin Franklin's Projections4. Performing Redemption on the National StagePart II: Bonds of the New Nation5. Arthur Mervyn and the Reader's Investments6. The Medium between Calculation and FeelingEpilogue: Headwork, Literary VocationNotesBibliographyIndex

""In her elegant analysis of writings by Cotton Mather, Benjamin Franklin, Royall Tyler, Charles Brockden Brown and Judith Sargent Murray, Jennifer Baker homes in on a mode of thinking in eighteenth-century America about debt, credit, speculation and paper money that is quite surprising.""

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