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Record Nr.

UNINA9910316454003321

Autore

Bivona Daniel

Titolo

Culture and money in the nineteenth century : abstracting economics / / edited by Daniel Bivona & Marlene Tromp

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ohio University Press, 2016

Athens, Ohio : , : Ohio University Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

0-8214-4547-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (239 p.)

Collana

Series in Victorian Studies

Classificazione

LIT004120BUS023000

Disciplina

306/.009034

Soggetti

Culture - 19th century

Money - Social aspects

Anthologies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Abstracting Economics; Part one: Broad Abstractions; 1: Born to the Business: Heredity, Ability, and Commercial Character in Late Victorian Britain; 2: Shifting the Ground of Monetary Politics: The Case of the 1870s; 3: The Comparative Advantages of Survival: Darwin's Origin, Competition, and the Economy of Nature; Part two: Particular Abstractions; 4: Art Unions and the Changing Face of Victorian Gambling

5: El Metálico Lord: Money and Mythmaking in Thomas Cochrane's 1859 Narrative of Services in the Liberation of Chili, Peru, and Brazil from Spanish and Portuguese Domination6: From Cooperation to Concentration: Socialism, Salvationism, and the "Indian Beggar"; 7: Walter Scott's Two Nations and the State of the Textile Industry in Britain; 8: Antidomestic: The Afterlife of Wills and the Politics of Foreign Investment, 1850-85; Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

Since the 1980s, scholars have made the case for examining nineteenth-century culture - particularly literary output - through the lens of economics.