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Victorian literature and finance /
This edited work analyses relationships between writing and the financial structures of the 19th century. What emerges is a set of imaginative connections between literature and Victorian finance, including women and the culture of investment, the profits of a media age, and the relationship between...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2007.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of 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 Siècle / Josephine M. Guy.