Ready to trample on all human law
Subtitle: financial capitalism in the fiction of Charles Dickens
By: by Paul A. Jarvie.
Series: Studies in major literary authors; Studies in major literary authors (Unnumbered)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
Subjects: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Knowledge -- Economics.; Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Characters -- Capitalists and financiers.; Capitalism and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.; Capitalists and financiers in literature.; Economics in literature.; Finance in literature.
Description: ix, 205 pages ; 24 cm
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: "I hold myself released from such hard bargains as these" : Nicholas Nickleby and "brotherly" capitalism; title: "With what strange mastery it seized him for itself" : the conversion of the financier in A Christmas carol; title: "Terribly wild ran the panic cry" : finance, panic, and the struggle for life in Little Dorrit; title: "Among the dying and the dead" : metonymy and finance capitalism in Our mutual friend.