1st Edition
Figures of Finance Capitalism Writing, Class and Capital in Mid-Victorian Narratives
By Borislav Knezevic
Copyright 2003
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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Figures of Finance Capitalism brings into focus Victorian narratives by major middle-class writers in which the workings of finance capitalism are prominently featured, and reads this interest in finance capitalism in the context of middle-class misgivings about a class system still dominated by a patrician elite. This book illustrates the centrality of finance capitalism to the mid-Victorian... Read more
Introduction Chapter One: A Historian in the Literary Marketplace: T. B. Macaulay, the English Constitution, and Finance Capitalism Chapter Two: Gentility, Capitalism, and Mapping the Nation in Elizabeth Gaskell's Stanford Chapter Three: The Middle Class and the Novel in W. M. Thackeray's The Newcomes Chapter Four: Banking on Sentiments: A Melodramatic Civil Society in Little Dorrit and A Tale of Two Cities Afterword Works Cited Index
Biography
Borislav Knezevic
