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Title Victorian literature and finance [electronic resource] / edited by Francis O'Gorman.

Imprint Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

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Description xii, 201 p.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-198) and index.
Contents Introduction / Francis O'Gorman -- "Even these metallic problems have their melodramatic side" : money in Victorian literature / Nicholas Shrimpton -- Inside out : value and display in Thomas De Quincey and Isaac Butt / Gordon Bigelow -- Edward Bulwer Lytton dreams of copyright : "It might make me a rich man" / Catherine Seville -- "Vulgar needs" : Elizabeth Barrett Browning, profit, and literary value / Alison Chapman -- The drama of capital : risk, belief, and liability on the Victorian stage / Jane Moody -- "Ladies do it?" : Victorian women investors in fact and fiction / Nancy Henry -- Literary realism in the wake of business cycle theory : the way we live now (1875) / Tara McGann -- Speculative fictions and the fortunes of H. Rider Haggard / Francis O'Gorman -- Cultural versus financial capital : defining literary value at the Fin de Siecle / Josephine M. Guy.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject 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.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author O'Gorman, Francis.
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ISBN 9780199281923 (alk. paper)
0199281920 (alk. paper)

 
    
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