Figures of finance capitalism: writing, class, and capital in the age of Dickens
Material type: TextSeries: Literary Criticism and Cultural TheoryPublication details: New York Routledge 2003Description: xi,231pISBN: 0415943183Subject(s): 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 fictionDDC classification: 823.809355 Summary: 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.Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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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.
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