Victorian literature and finance [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Francis O'Gorman

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910465628003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007
• ISBN: 1-281-15394-X; 1-4294-9296-1; 0-19-153600-8; 9786611153946
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (216 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): O'GormanFrancis
• Disciplina: 820.9/008
• Soggetti: English literature - 19th century - History and criticism; Finance in literature; Money in literature; Value in literature; Capitalism in literature; Capitalism and literature - Great Britain - History - 19th century; Authorship - Economic aspects - Great Britain - History - 19th century; Literature publishing - Economic aspects - Great Britain - History - 19th century; Electronic books.
• 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 (p. [193]-198) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book analyses relationships between writing and the financial structures of the 19th century. What emerges is a remarkable set of imaginative connections between literature and Victorian finance, including women and the culture of investment, the profits of a media age, and the uncomfortable relationship between literary and financial capital. - ;Victorian Britain offered to the globe an economic structure of unique complexity. The trading nation, at the heart of a great empire, developed the practices of advanced capitalism - currency, banking, investment, money markets, business practice