What does it consist of: Capitalist self-fashioning focuses on economic self-interest; rational, calculation of self-interest and resourcefulness.
Examples of texts that demonstrate this:
- Moll Flanders: Moll marries in order to obtain money. When this doesn't work she resorts to crime and even meets up with one of her ex-husbands in order to obtain some of her mother's inheritance.
- The Prince: The Prince focuses on the idea of rational disscions and the calculation of self-interest.
- Canterbury tales: The Wife of Bath may have had several husbands for finacial sercurity.
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