03305oam 2200733I 450 991078386340332120230207223837.01-135-94711-21-138-86863-91-135-94712-01-280-07594-50-203-48513-010.4324/9780203485132 (CKB)1000000000249947(EBL)182813(OCoLC)56051961(SSID)ssj0000296364(PQKBManifestationID)11223649(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000296364(PQKBWorkID)10327080(PQKB)10435162(MiAaPQ)EBC182813(Au-PeEL)EBL182813(CaPaEBR)ebr10165269(CaONFJC)MIL7594(EXLCZ)99100000000024994720180331d2003 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrFigures of finance capitalism writing, class, and capital in the age of Dickens /Borislav KnezevicNew York :Routledge,2003.1 online resource (206 p.)Literary criticism and cultural theoryDescription based upon print version of record.0-203-60347-8 0-415-94318-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-226) and index.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.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 historLiterary criticism and cultural theory.English fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismCapitalism and literatureGreat BritainHistory19th centuryCapitalists and financiers in literatureSocial classes in literatureCapitalism in literatureFinance in literatureEnglish fictionHistory and criticism.Capitalism and literatureHistoryCapitalists and financiers in literature.Social classes in literature.Capitalism in literature.Finance in literature.823/.809355Knezevic Borislav1961,1565586MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910783863403321Figures of finance capitalism3835427UNINA