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economic criticism
embodied knowledge
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Gilded Age
gossip
history of knowledge
rumour
social capital
speculation
uncertainty
US American capitalism
Product details
- ISBN 9781526182159
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 29 Apr 2025
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Speculative endeavours contributes to an emerging field of scholarship that focuses on alternative forms of knowledge production and speculation in nineteenth century US-American society. It sheds light on unofficial knowledges such as insider information, rumour, gossip, slander, emphasising how knowledges excluded by institutional discourses and authorities form a core part of the developing market economy. Ranging from the Early Republic to the Gilded Age, contributions analyse entanglements of financial, cultural, and social capital. They focus on social actors who differ from the newly minted ideal of the (free, white, male) entrepreneurial individual. The speculative endeavours discussed include illicit communications located in slave quarters and domestic spaces, communal interventions into a commercialised print market, debates on immigrant fiduciary and legal competency, and disciplinary techniques of pecuniary pedagogy. Taken together they offer unprecedented interdisciplinary insights into an emerging age of capital.
Selina Foltinek is a doctoral candidate of American Studies at the University of Bayreuth and a teacher of History, English, and Political Science
Karin Hoepker is Associate Professor of North American Studies at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg
Katrin Horn is Professor of Gender Studies at the Institute of English and American Studies at the University of Greifswald
