Victorian literature and finance - ECU Libraries Catalog

Victorian literature and finance / edited by Francis O'Gorman.

Other author/creator	O'Gorman, Francis.
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Description	xii, 201 pages ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content	Table of contents only
Subject(s)	English literature--19th century --History and criticism. Finance in literature. Money in literature. Value in literature. Capitalism in literature. Capitalism and literature--Great Britain --History --19th century. Authorship--Economic aspects --Great Britain --History --19th century. Literature publishing--Economic aspects --Great Britain --History --19th century.

Contents	Introduction / Francis O'Gorman -- "Even these metallic problems have their melodramatic side" : money in Victorian literature / Nicholas Shrimpton -- Inside out : value and display in Thomas De Quincey and Isaac Butt / Gordon Bigelow -- Edward Bulwer Lytton dreams of copyright : "It might make me a rich man" / Catherine Seville -- "Vulgar needs" : Elizabeth Barrett Browning, profit, and literary value / Alison Chapman -- The drama of capital : risk, belief, and liability on the Victorian stage / Jane Moody -- "Ladies do it?" : Victorian women investors in fact and fiction / Nancy Henry -- Literary realism in the wake of business cycle theory : the way we live now (1875) / Tara McGann -- Speculative fictions and the fortunes of H. Rider Haggard / Francis O'Gorman -- Cultural versus financial capital : defining literary value at the Fin de Siècle / Josephine M. Guy.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-198) and index.
LCCN	2006102389
ISBN	9780199281923 (alk. paper)
ISBN	0199281920 (alk. paper)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	PR468.F56 V53 2007	✔ Available	Place Hold