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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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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 |
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