Figures of Finance Capitalism: Writing, Class and Capital in Mid-Victorian Narratives - Brossura

Knezevic, Borislav

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ISBN 10: 1138868639 ISBN 13: 9781138868632

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2019

Riassunto

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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Contenuti:

Introduction
Chapter One: A Historian in the Literary Marketplace: T. B. Macaulay, the English Constitution, and Finance Capitalism
Chapter Two: Gentility, Capitalism, and Mapping the Nation in Elizabeth Gaskell's Stanford
Chapter Three: The Middle Class and the Novel in W. M. Thackeray's The Newcomes
Chapter Four: Banking on Sentiments: A Melodramatic Civil Society in Little Dorrit and A Tale of Two Cities
Afterword
Works Cited
Index

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1138868639
• ISBN 13: 9781138868632
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 244