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Victorian literature and finance / edited by Francis O'Gorman.
- Format:
- Book
- 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.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9786611153946
- 9780191536007
- 0191536008
- 9780191712951
- 0191712957
- 9781429492966
- 1429492961
- 9781281153944
- 128115394X
- OCLC:
- 476246629
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