Realizing Capital : Financial and Psychic Economies in Victorian Form.
Title:
Realizing Capital : Financial and Psychic Economies in Victorian Form.
Author:
Kornbluh, Anna.
ISBN:
9780823255009
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (232 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Fictitious Capital / Real Psyche -- 2. Investor Ironies in Great Expectations -- 3. The Economic Problem of Sympathy -- 4. "Money Expects Money" -- 5. London, Nineteenth Century, Capital of Realism -- 6. Psychic Economy and Its Vicissitudes -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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