Speculative fictions : explaining the economy in the early United States /

Speculative Fictions' places Alexander Hamilton at the center of American literary history to consider the important intersections between economics and literature. By studying Hamilton as an economic and imaginative writer, it argues that we can recast the conflict with the Jeffersonians as a...

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Main Author: Hewitt, Elizabeth, 1965- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Oxford studies in American literary history.
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