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

• Autore: Knezevic Borislav <1961, >
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (206 p.)
• Disciplina: 823/.809355
• Soggetto topico: 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
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Figures of finance capitalism
• ISBN: 1-135-94711-2; 1-138-86863-9; 1-135-94712-0; 1-280-07594-5; 0-203-48513-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910783863403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Literary criticism and cultural theory.