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Victorian literature and finance / edited by Francis O'Gorman.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
O'Gorman, Francis.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
English literature.
Finance in literature.
Money in literature.
Value in literature.
Capitalism in literature.
Capitalism and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Capitalism and literature.
Authorship--Economic aspects--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Authorship.
Literature publishing--Economic aspects--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Literature publishing.
Physical Description:
xii, 201 p.
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Summary:
This book analyses relationships between writing and the financial structures of the 19th century. What emerges is a remarkable set of imaginative connections between literature and Victorian finance, including women and the culture of investment, the profits of a media age, and the uncomfortable relationship between literary and financial capital.
Contents:
Introduction / Francis O'Gorman
"Even these metallic problems have their melodramatic side" : money in Victorian literature / Nicholas Shrimpton
Inside out : value and display in Thomas De Quincey and Isaac Butt / Gordon Bigelow
Edward Bulwer Lytton dreams of copyright : "It might make me a rich man" / Catherine Seville
"Vulgar needs" : Elizabeth Barrett Browning, profit, and literary value / Alison Chapman
The drama of capital : risk, belief, and liability on the Victorian stage / Jane Moody
"Ladies do it?" : Victorian women investors in fact and fiction / Nancy Henry
Literary realism in the wake of business cycle theory : the way we live now (1875) / Tara McGann
Speculative fictions and the fortunes of H. Rider Haggard / Francis O'Gorman
Cultural versus financial capital : defining literary value at the Fin de Siecle / Josephine M. Guy.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-198) and index.
Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
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ISBN:
9786611153946
9780191536007
0191536008
9780191712951
0191712957
9781429492966
1429492961
9781281153944
128115394X
OCLC:
476246629

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