TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wagner,Tamara S.
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Financial Speculation in Victorian Fiction : : Plotting Money and the Novel Genre, 1815-1901 / 
SN  - 9780814271346
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Columbus
PB  - Ohio State University Press
KW  - Victoriaanse tijd
KW  - gtt
KW  - Romans
KW  - Geld
KW  - Speculatie
KW  - Money in literature
KW  - fast
KW  - Finance in literature
KW  - English fiction
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Roman anglais
KW  - 19e siecle
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - 19th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Plotting financial speculation : the making of stock-market villains -- Silver-fork speculation and the making of financial fiction -- The sensational stock-market novel -- Speculators abroad -- Speculators at home; Open Access
N2  - This book explores the ways in which financial speculation was imagined and turned into narratives in Victorian Britain. Since there clearly was more to literature's use of the stock market than a mere reflection of contemporary economic crises alone, a reappraisal of the Victorians' fascination with extended fiscal plots and metaphors also asks for a close reading of the ways in which this fascination remodeled the novel genre. It was not merely that interchanges between literary productions and the credit economy's new instruments became self-consciously worked into fiction. Financial uncertainties functioned as an expression of indeterminacy and inscrutability, of an encompassing sense of instability. This study analyzes the making and adaptation of specific motifs, of variously adapted tropes, extended metaphors, and recurring figures, including their transformation of a series of crises into narratives. Since these crises were often personal and emotional as well as financial, the new plots of speculation described maps of some of the major themes of nineteenth-century literature. These maps led across overlapping categories of literary culture, generating zones of intersection between otherwise markedly different subgenres that ranged from silver-fork fiction to the surprisingly protean versions of the sensation novel's domestic Gothic. Financial plots operated as the intersecting points in these overlapping developments, compelling a reconsideration of literary form
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/27716/
ER  -