Victorian literature and finance
By: edited by Francis O'Gorman
Contributors: O'Gorman, Francis
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9780199281923
Subjects: 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
Description: This edited work analyses relationships between writing and the financial structures of the 19th century. What emerges is a set of imaginative connections between literature and Victorian finance, including women and the culture of investment, the profits of a media age, and the relationship between literary and financial capital.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-198) and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Francis O'Gorman; title: "Even these metallic problems have their melodramatic side" : money in Victorian literature / Nicholas Shrimpton; title: Inside out : value and display in Thomas De Quincey and Isaac Butt / Gordon Bigelow; title: Edward Bulwer Lytton dreams of copyright : "It might make me a rich man" / Catherine Seville; title: "Vulgar needs" : Elizabeth Barrett Browning, profit, and literary value / Alison Chapman; title: The drama of capital : risk, belief, and liability on the Victorian stage / Jane Moody; title: "Ladies do it?" : Victorian women investors in fact and fiction / Nancy Henry; title: Literary realism in the wake of business cycle theory : the way we live now (1875) / Tara McGann; title: Speculative fictions and the fortunes of H. Rider Haggard / Francis O'Gorman; title: Cultural versus financial capital : defining literary value at the Fin de Siècle / Josephine M. Guy