| Description |
1 online resource (x, 221 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction : "A case of metaphysics" : realizing capital -- Fictitious capital/real psyche : metalepsis, psychologism, and the grounds of finance -- Investor ironies in Great Expectations -- The economic problem of sympathy : parabasis and interest in Middlemarch -- "Money expects money" : satiric credit in The Way We Live Now -- London, nineteenth century, capital of realism : on Marx's Victorian novel -- Psychic economy and its vicissitudes : Freud's economic hypothesis -- Epilogue : The psychic life of finance |
| Summary |
This book traces modern rhetorical and ideological connections between finance and psychology first generated in the Victorian period in the journalism of Walter Bagehot and David Morier Evans; the novels of Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Anthony Trollope; and the critical works of Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-211) and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (JSTOR platform, viewed April 7, 2017) |
| Subject |
Economics and literature -- England -- History -- 19th century
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Economics -- England -- Psychological aspects
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English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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Finance in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Theory.
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Economics and literature
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Economics -- Psychological aspects
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English literature
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Finance in literature
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England
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780823254989 |
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0823254984 |
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9780823254996 |
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0823254992 |
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9780823255009 |
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082325500X |
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9780823261123 |
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0823261123 |
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