Realizing Capital : Financial and Psychic Economies in Victorian Form /

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During a tumultuous period when financial speculation began rapidly to outpace industrial production and consumption, Victorian financial journalists commonly explained the instability of finance by criticizing its inherent artifice drawing persistent attention to what they called ""fictit...

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Autor principal: Kornbluh, Anna
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2014.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Finance in literature.
English literature.
Economics > Psychological aspects.
Economics and literature.
Litterature anglaise > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Économie politique > Angleterre > Aspect psychologique.
Économie politique et litterature > Angleterre > Histoire > 19e siecle.
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Economics > England > Psychological aspects.
Economics and literature > England > History > 19th century.
England.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:During a tumultuous period when financial speculation began rapidly to outpace industrial production and consumption, Victorian financial journalists commonly explained the instability of finance by criticizing its inherent artifice drawing persistent attention to what they called ""fictitious capital."" In a shift that naturalized this artifice, this critique of fictitious capital virtually disappeared by the 1860s, being replaced by notions of fickle investor psychology and mental equilibrium encapsulated in the fascinating metaphor of ""psychic economy."" In close rhetorical readings of fin.
Notas:Description based upon print version of record.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (232 pages).
ISBN:9780823254996

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