"Bankrupt in all but my good wishes": Speculative Economics in Cleomelia; Or The Generous Mistress.
This article explores Eliza Haywood's Cleomelia; Or The Generous Mistress: Being the Secret History of a Lady Lately Arrived from Bengall (1727), an obscure tale preoccupied with the politics of British investment in exotic foreign trade and speculation. Against the Eastern backdrop of Bengali tradi...
| Publicado en: | Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies Vol. 14; no. 4; pp. 79 - 101 |
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