Victorian literature and finance [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Francis O'Gorman
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| Titolo: |
Victorian literature and finance [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Francis O'Gorman
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (216 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 820.9/008 |
| Soggetto topico: | English literature - 19th century - History and criticism |
| Finance in literature | |
| Money in literature | |
| Value in literature | |
| Capitalism in literature | |
| Capitalism and literature - Great Britain - History - 19th century | |
| Authorship - Economic aspects - Great Britain - History - 19th century | |
| Literature publishing - Economic aspects - Great Britain - History - 19th century | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Altri autori: |
O'GormanFrancis
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-198) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 Siècle / Josephine M. Guy. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. - ;Victorian Britain offered to the globe an economic structure of unique complexity. The trading nation, at the heart of a great empire, developed the practices of advanced capitalism - currency, banking, investment, money markets, business practice |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Victorian literature and finance |
| ISBN: | 1-281-15394-X |
| 1-4294-9296-1 | |
| 0-19-153600-8 | |
| 9786611153946 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910465628003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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