TY  - BOOK
AU  - Knezevic, Borislav
TI  - Figures of finance capitalism: writing, class, and capital in the age of Dickens 
T2  - Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory 
SN  - 0415943183
U1  - 823.809355 
PY  - 2003///
CY  - New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - English fiction-history and criticism
KW  - Capitalism and literature
KW  - English literature
KW  - Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron, 1800-1859
KW  - Capitalism in literature
KW  - Capitalists and financiers in literature
KW  - Finance in literature
KW  - Social classes in literature
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - English fiction
N1  - Includes index and bibliography
N2  - 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
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