Tabla de Contenidos: “…God knows how we wretches came by that fashionable thing a national debt: the Dublin book trade and the Irish financial revolution -- Banking on print: the Bank of Ireland, the South Sea bubble, and the bailout -- Arachne's bowels: scatology, enlightenment, and Swift's relations with the London book trade -- Money, the great divider of the world, has, by a strange revolution, been the great uniter of a most divided people: from minting to printing in the Drapier's letters -- Devouring posterity: a modest proposal, empire, and Ireland's debt of the nation -- A mart of literature: the 1730s and the rise of a literary public sphere in Ireland -- Epilogue: a brand identity crisis in a national literature?…”