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Realizing capital : financial and psychic economies in Victorian form /

This book traces modern rhetorical and ideological connections between finance and psychology first generated in the Victorian period in the journalism of Walter Bagehot and David Morier Evans; the novels of Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Anthony Trollope; and the critical works of Karl Marx and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kornbluh, Anna (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2014
Edición:First edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : "A case of metaphysics" : realizing capital
  • Fictitious capital/real psyche : metalepsis, psychologism, and the grounds of finance
  • Investor ironies in Great Expectations
  • The economic problem of sympathy : parabasis and interest in Middlemarch
  • "Money expects money" : satiric credit in The Way We Live Now
  • London, nineteenth century, capital of realism : on Marx's Victorian novel
  • Psychic economy and its vicissitudes : Freud's economic hypothesis
  • Epilogue : The psychic life of finance.