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In this original study, Colin Nicholson reads familiar texts such as Gulliver’s Travels, The Beggar’s Opera and The Dunciad as ‘capital satires’, responding to the social and political effects of London’s new capitalist financial institutions: the Bank of England, the National Debt and the South Sea Bubble disaster of 1721.Nicholson, Colin is the author of 'Writing and the Rise of Finance Capital Satires of the Early Eighteenth Century', published 1994 under ISBN 9780521453233 and ISBN 0521453232.
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