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Autore |
Knezevic Borislav <1961, > |
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Titolo |
Figures of finance capitalism : writing, class, and capital in the age of Dickens / / Borislav Knezevic |
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New York : , : Routledge, , 2003 |
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1-135-94711-2 |
1-138-86863-9 |
1-135-94712-0 |
1-280-07594-5 |
0-203-48513-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (206 p.) |
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Collana |
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Literary criticism and cultural theory |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-226) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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, |
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