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
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.

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