Knezevic, Borislav
Figures of finance capitalism: writing, class, and capital in the age of Dickens - New York Routledge 2003 - xi,231p. - Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory .
Includes index and bibliography.
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 middle-class social imagination by discussing a selection of major Victorian texts by Dickens, Gaskell, Thackeray and Macaulay. In so doing, it draws on several new perspectives on British history, as offered in the work of historians such as Tom Nairn, David Cannadine, and P.J. Cain and A.G. Hopkins. Articulating the basic coordinates for a new sociology of mid-Victorian literature, Borislav Knezevic views texts through the prism of the mid-Victorian literary field and its negotiations of the contemporary field of power.
0415943183
English fiction-history and criticism
Capitalism and literature
English literature
Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron, 1800-1859
Capitalism in literature
Capitalists and financiers in literature
Finance in literature
Social classes in literature
Great Britain
Capitalism and literature
English fiction
823.809355 / KNE/F
Figures of finance capitalism: writing, class, and capital in the age of Dickens - New York Routledge 2003 - xi,231p. - Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory .
Includes index and bibliography.
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 middle-class social imagination by discussing a selection of major Victorian texts by Dickens, Gaskell, Thackeray and Macaulay. In so doing, it draws on several new perspectives on British history, as offered in the work of historians such as Tom Nairn, David Cannadine, and P.J. Cain and A.G. Hopkins. Articulating the basic coordinates for a new sociology of mid-Victorian literature, Borislav Knezevic views texts through the prism of the mid-Victorian literary field and its negotiations of the contemporary field of power.
0415943183
English fiction-history and criticism
Capitalism and literature
English literature
Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron, 1800-1859
Capitalism in literature
Capitalists and financiers in literature
Finance in literature
Social classes in literature
Great Britain
Capitalism and literature
English fiction
823.809355 / KNE/F