This book explores the relationship between Dickens's novels and
the financial system. Elements of Dickens's work form a critique of
financial capitalism. This critique is rooted in the difference
between use-value and exchange-value, and in the difference between
productive circulations and mere accumulation. In a money-based
society, exchange-value and accumulation dominate to the point
where they infect even the most important and sacred relationships
between parts of society and individuals. This study explores
Dickens's critique from two very different points of view. The
first is philosophical, from Aristotle's distinction between
"chrematistic" accumulation and "economic" use on money through
Marx's focus on the teleology of capitalism as death. The second
view is that of nineteenth-century financial journalism, of "City"
writers like David Morier Evans and M. L. Meason,, who, while
functioning as "cheerleaders" for financial capitalism, also
reflected some of the very real "dis-ease" associated with capital
formation and accumulation. The core concepts of this critique are
constant in the novels, but the critique broadens and becomes more
pessimistic over time. The ill effects of living in a money-based
society are presented more as the consequences of individual evil
in earlier novels, while in the later books they are depicted as
systemic and pervasive. Texts discussed include Nicholas Nickleby,
A Christmas Carol, Little Dorrit and Our Mutual Friend.
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