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Culture and money in the nineteenth century : abstracting economics / / edited by Daniel Bivona & Marlene Tromp
| Culture and money in the nineteenth century : abstracting economics / / edited by Daniel Bivona & Marlene Tromp |
| Autore | Bivona Daniel |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Ohio University Press, 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (239 p.) |
| Disciplina | 306/.009034 |
| Collana | Series in Victorian Studies |
| Soggetto topico |
Culture - 19th century
Money - Social aspects |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Anthologies |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Literature
Victorian Studies literary studies economic history nineteenth century |
| ISBN | 0-8214-4547-2 |
| Classificazione | LIT004120BUS023000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Abstracting Economics; Part one: Broad Abstractions; 1: Born to the Business: Heredity, Ability, and Commercial Character in Late Victorian Britain; 2: Shifting the Ground of Monetary Politics: The Case of the 1870s; 3: The Comparative Advantages of Survival: Darwin's Origin, Competition, and the Economy of Nature; Part two: Particular Abstractions; 4: Art Unions and the Changing Face of Victorian Gambling
5: El Metálico Lord: Money and Mythmaking in Thomas Cochrane's 1859 Narrative of Services in the Liberation of Chili, Peru, and Brazil from Spanish and Portuguese Domination6: From Cooperation to Concentration: Socialism, Salvationism, and the "Indian Beggar"; 7: Walter Scott's Two Nations and the State of the Textile Industry in Britain; 8: Antidomestic: The Afterlife of Wills and the Politics of Foreign Investment, 1850-85; Contributors |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910316454003321 |
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| Ohio University Press, 2016 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Victorian Freaks : The Social Context of Freaking in Britain / / edited by Marlene Tromp
| Victorian Freaks : The Social Context of Freaking in Britain / / edited by Marlene Tromp |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2008 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xiii, 328 p.) : ill. ; |
| Disciplina | 616.0430941 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | TrompMarlene <1966-> |
| Soggetto topico |
Social Conditions - history - Great Britain
History, 19th Century - Great Britain Congenital Abnormalities - history - Great Britain Human body - Social aspects - Great Britain - History - 19th century Freak shows - Great Britain - History - 19th century Abnormalities, Human - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Even as you and I : freak shows and lay discourse on spectacular deformity / Heather McHold -- Freaklore : the dissemination, fragmentation, and reinvention of the legend of Daniel Lambert, king of fat men / Joyce L. Huff -- White wings and six-legged muttons : the freakish animal / Timothy Neil -- "Poor Hoo Loo" : sentiment, stoicism, and the grotesque in British imperial medicine / Meegan Kennedy -- Elephant talk : language and enfranchisement in the Merrick case / Christine C. Ferguson -- The Missing Link and the Hairy Belle : Krao and the Victorian discourses of evolution, imperialism, and primitive sexuality / Nadja Durbach -- Empire and the Indian freak : the "Miniature Man" from Cawnpore and the "Marvellous Indian Boy" on tour in England / Marlene Tromp -- The Victorian mummy-fetish : H. Rider Haggard, Frank Aubrey, and the white mummy / Kelly Hurley -- Our bear women, ourselves : affiliating with Julia Pastrana / Rebecca Stern -- Queering the marriage plot : Wilkie Collins's The law and the lady / Martha Stoddard Holmes -- Freaks that matter : the dolls' dressmaker, the doctor's assistant, and the limits of difference / Melissa Free -- A collaborative aesthetic : Levinas's idea of responsibility and the photographs of Charles Eisenmann and the late nineteenth-century freak-performer / Christopher R. Smit. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910524669203321 |
| Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2008 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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