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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783863403321

Autore

Knezevic Borislav <1961, >

Titolo

Figures of finance capitalism : writing, class, and capital in the age of Dickens / / Borislav Knezevic

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2003

ISBN

1-135-94711-2

1-138-86863-9

1-135-94712-0

1-280-07594-5

0-203-48513-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (206 p.)

Collana

Literary criticism and cultural theory

Disciplina

823/.809355

Soggetti

English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

Capitalism and literature - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Capitalists and financiers in literature

Social classes in literature

Capitalism in literature

Finance in literature

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. 221-226) and index.

Nota di contenuto

A historian in the literary marketplace : T.B. Macaulay, the English Constitution, and finance capitalism -- Gentility, capitalism, and mapping the nation in Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford -- The middle class and the novel in W.M. Thackeray's The Newcomes -- Banking on sentiments : a melodramatic civil society in Little Dorrit and A tale of two cities.

Sommario/riassunto

Figures of Finance Capitalism brings into focus Victorian narratives by major middle-class writers in which the workings of finance capitalism are prominently featured, and reads this interest in finance capitalism in the context of middle-class misgivings about a class system still dominated by a patrician elite. This book illustrates the centrality of finance capitalism to the mid-Victorian middle-class social imagination by discussing a selection of major Victorian texts by Dickens, Gaskell,



Thackeray and Macaulay. In so doing, it draws on several new perspectives on British histor