Culture and Money in the Nineteenth Century
Ohio University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8214-2196-3 (ISBN)
Since the 1980s, scholars have made the case for examining nineteenth-century culture—particularly literary output—through the lens of economics. In Culture and Money in the Nineteenth Century: Abstracting Economics, two luminaries in the field of Victorian studies, Daniel Bivona and Marlene Tromp, have collected contributions from leading thinkers that push New Economic Criticism in new and exciting directions.
Spanning the Americas, India, England, and Scotland, this volume adopts an inclusive, global view of the cultural effects of economics and exchange. Contributors use the concept of abstraction to show how economic thought and concerns around money permeated all aspects of nineteenth-century culture, from the language of wills to arguments around the social purpose of art.
The characteristics of investment and speculation; the fraught symbolic and practical meanings of paper money to the Victorians; the shifting value of goods, services, and ideas; the evolving legal conceptualizations of artistic ownership—all of these, contributors argue, are essential to understanding nineteenth-century culture in Britain and beyond.
Contributors: Daniel Bivona, Suzanne Daly, Jennifer Hayward, Aeron Hunt, Roy Kreitner, Kathryn Pratt Russell, Cordelia Smith, and Marlene Tromp.
Daniel Bivona is the author of Desire and Contradiction: Imperial Visions and Domestic Debates in Victorian Literature, British Imperial Literature, 1870 to 1940: Writing and the Administration of Empire, and (with Roger B. Henkle) The Imagination of Class: Masculinity and the Victorian Urban Poor. He teaches at Arizona State University. Marlene Tromp is the author of Altered States: Sex, Nation, Drugs, and Self-Transformation in Victorian Spiritualism and The Private Rod: Marital Violence, Sensation, and the Law in Victorian Britain as well as an editor or contributor to other volumes. She is president of the North American Victorian Studies Association and teaches at Arizona State University.
* Acknowledgments * Introduction Abstracting Economics Daniel Bivona and Marlene Tromp * Part ONE: Broad Abstractions Character, Professional Expertise, and Nature * Chapter One: Born to the Business Heredity, Ability, and Commercial Character in Late Victorian Britain Aeron Hunt * Chapter Two: Shifting the Ground of Monetary Politics The Case of the 1870s Roy Kreitner * Chapter Three: The Comparative Advantages of Survival Darwin's Origin, Competition, and the Economy of Nature Daniel Bivona * Part TWO: Particular Abstractions Economics and Culture * Chapter Four: Art Unions and the Changing Face of Victorian Gambling Cordelia Smith * Chapter Five: El Metalico Lord Money and Mythmaking in Thomas Cochrane's 1859 Narrative of Services in the Liberation of Chili, Peru, and Brazil from Spanish and Portuguese Domination Jennifer Hayward * Chapter Six: From Cooperation to Concentration Socialism, Salvationism, and the "Indian Beggar" Suzanne Daly * Chapter Seven: Walter Scott's Two Nations and the State of the Textile Industry in Britain Kathryn Pratt Russell * Chapter Eight: Antidomestic The Afterlife of Wills and the Politics of Foreign Investment, 1850-85 Marlene Tromp * Contributors * Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 25.05.2016 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Series in Victorian Studies |
| Verlagsort | Athens |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
| Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8214-2196-4 / 0821421964 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8214-2196-3 / 9780821421963 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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