Culture and money in the nineteenth century : abstracting economics / edited by Daniel Bivona & Marlene Tromp.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bivona, Daniel, editor.

Tromp, Marlene, 1966- editor.

Series:

Series in Victorian Studies.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Culture--19th century.

Culture.

Money--Social aspects.

Money.

Anthologies.

Genre:

Anthologies

Physical Description:

1 online resource (239 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ohio University Press 2016

Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Since the 1980s, scholars have made the case for examining nineteenth-century culture - particularly literary output - through the lens of economics.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Abstracting Economics; Part one: Broad Abstractions; 1: Born to the Business: Heredity, Ability, and Commercial Character in Late Victorian Britain; 2: Shifting the Ground of Monetary Politics: The Case of the 1870s; 3: The Comparative Advantages of Survival: Darwin's Origin, Competition, and the Economy of Nature; Part two: Particular Abstractions; 4: Art Unions and the Changing Face of Victorian Gambling

5: El Metálico Lord: Money and Mythmaking in Thomas Cochrane's 1859 Narrative of Services in the Liberation of Chili, Peru, and Brazil from Spanish and Portuguese Domination6: From Cooperation to Concentration: Socialism, Salvationism, and the "Indian Beggar"; 7: Walter Scott's Two Nations and the State of the Textile Industry in Britain; 8: Antidomestic: The Afterlife of Wills and the Politics of Foreign Investment, 1850-85; Contributors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780821445471

0821445472

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access