1st Edition
Metaphors of Economic Exploitation in Literature, 1885-1914 Vampiric Enterprise
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Vampire Economics, Rebel Rhetoric
Chapter 1: Fin-de-Siècle Socialism and the Problem of ‘Fatmanism’
Chapter 2: On Vampires and Cannibals: Bertram Mitford’s African Quest Romance
Chapter 3: ‘That Odd Double-Graspingness of Nature’: Parasitical Intimacies in the Writing of Henry James and Vernon Lee
Chapter 4: Divine Economy: Socialism, Capitalism, and the Fiction of Lucas Malet
Index
Biography
Jane Ford is a Senior Lecturer in English Studies at Teesside University, UK. She is a specialist in fin-de-siècle literature and culture, particularly women’s writing, the Gothic and economic themes and metaphors. She has published essays on a range of nineteenth-century writers, including Mona Caird, Olive Schreiner, Vernon Lee, Lucas Malet and Bertram Mitford. She is co-editor of two collections of essays: Economies of Desire at the Victorian Fin de Siècle: Libidinal Lives (Routledge 2016) and Lucas Malet, Dissident Pilgrim: Critical Essays (Routledge 2020).
