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Victorian Literature and Finance (Hardcover, New)
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Victorian Literature and Finance (Hardcover, New)
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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 practices and theory,
intellectual property legislation - from which the financial
systems of the contemporary world emerged. Cultural forms in
Victorian Britain transacted with high capitalism in a variety of
ways but literary critics interested in economics have
traditionally been preoccupied either with writers' hostility to
industrial capitalism in terms of its shaping of class, or with the
development of consumerism. Victorian Literature and Finance is the
first extended study to take seriously the relationships between
literary forms and those more complex discourses of Victorian high
finance. These essays move beyond the examination of literature
that was merely impatient with the perceived consequences of
capitalism to analyse creative relationships between culture and
economic structures. Considering such topics as the nature of
currency, women and the culture of investment, the profits of a
modern media age, the dramatization of risk on the Victorian stage,
the practice of realism in relation to business theory, the culture
of speculation at the end of the century, and arguments about the
uncomfortable relationship between literary and financial capital,
Victorian Literature and Finance sets new terms for understanding
and theorizing the relationship between high finance and literary
writing in the nineteenth century.
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