Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- 1. 'Even these metallic problems have their melodramatic side': Money in Victorian Literature -- 2. Inside Out: Value and Display in Thomas De Quincey and Isaac Butt -- 3. Edward Bulwer Lytton Dreams of Copyright: 'It might make me a rich man' -- 4. 'Vulgar needs': Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Profit, and Literary Value -- 5. The Drama of Capital: Risk, Belief, and Liability on the Victorian Stage -- 6. 'Ladies do it?': Victorian Women Investors in Fact and Fiction -- 7. Literary Realism in the Wake of Business Cycle Theory: The Way We Live Now (1875) -- 8. Speculative Fictions and the Fortunes of H. Rider Haggard -- 9. Cultural versus Financial Capital: Defining Literary Value at the Fin de Siècle -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z.