Neither Pistols nor Sugar-Plumbs: The Rhetoric of Finance and the 1720 Bubbles

William Rodney Herring University of Colorado Denver

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ABSTRACT The first two decades of the eighteenth century saw the rapid growth of financial markets in Paris and London, growth due in large part to the appeal of newly available financial instruments. This essay examines that appeal in rhetorical terms and argues for the importance of conceiving finance rhetorically.

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Advances in the History of Rhetoric
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2018-05-04
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10.1080/15362426.2018.1474047
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