Victorian literature and finance [electronic resource] / edited by Francis O'Gorman. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007. - xii, 201 p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-198) and index.

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 Siècle / Josephine M. Guy.


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English literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Finance in literature.
Money in literature.
Value in literature.
Capitalism in literature.
Capitalism and literature--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Authorship--Economic aspects--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Literature publishing--Economic aspects--History--Great Britain--19th century.


Electronic books.

PR468.F56 / V53 2007eb

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