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100			_aKnezevic, Borislav
245	1	0	_aFigures of finance capitalism: writing, class, and capital in the age of Dickens
260			_aNew York _bRoutledge _c2003
300			_axi,231p.
490	0		_aLiterary Criticism and Cultural Theory
500			_aIncludes index and bibliography.
520			_aFigures 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.
650			_aEnglish fiction-history and criticism
650	0		_aCapitalism and literature
650	0		_aEnglish literature
650	0		_aMacaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron, 1800-1859
650	0		_aCapitalism in literature
650	0		_aCapitalists and financiers in literature
650	0		_aFinance in literature
650	0		_aSocial classes in literature
650	0		_aGreat Britain
650	0		_aCapitalism and literature
650	0		_aEnglish fiction
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