03290nam 2200613 a 450 991080704200332120240418145635.001915360089780191536007(MiAaPQ)EBC7034704(CKB)24235071300041(MiAaPQ)EBC416028(Au-PeEL)EBL416028(CaPaEBR)ebr10271588(CaONFJC)MIL115394(OCoLC)476246629(EXLCZ)992423507130004120061219d2007 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierVictorian literature and finance[electronic resource] /edited by Francis O'Gorman1st ed.Oxford ;New York Oxford University Press2007xii, 201 pIncludes bibliographical references (p. [193]-198) and index.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 Siecle / Josephine M. Guy.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.English literature19th centuryHistory and criticismFinance in literatureMoney in literatureValue in literatureCapitalism in literatureCapitalism and literatureGreat BritainHistory19th centuryAuthorshipEconomic aspectsGreat BritainHistory19th centuryLiterature publishingEconomic aspectsGreat BritainHistory19th centuryEnglish literatureHistory and criticism.Finance in literature.Money in literature.Value in literature.Capitalism in literature.Capitalism and literatureHistoryAuthorshipEconomic aspectsHistoryLiterature publishingEconomic aspectsHistory820.9/008O'Gorman Francis1675395MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQ9910807042003321Victorian literature and finance4120727UNINA