Culture and Money in the Nineteenth Century (eBook)

Abstracting Economics

DANIEL BIVONA, Marlene Tromp (Herausgeber)

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2016
240 Seiten
Ohio University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8214-4547-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Grounded in literary studies and spanning the Americas, India, England, and Scotland, this book explores the relationship between economic concepts and culture in the period, focusing on how economic tropes were abstracted into other discourses in fields as diverse as evolutionary science, business, or literary narrative.

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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.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments
IntroductionAbstracting EconomicsDaniel Bivona and Marlene Tromp
Part ONE: Broad AbstractionsCharacter, Professional Expertise, and Nature
Chapter One: Born to the BusinessHeredity, Ability, and Commercial Character in Late Victorian BritainAeron Hunt
Chapter Two: Shifting the Ground of Monetary PoliticsThe Case of the 1870sRoy Kreitner
Chapter Three: The Comparative Advantages of SurvivalDarwin’s Origin, Competition, and the Economy of NatureDaniel Bivona
Part TWO: Particular AbstractionsEconomics and Culture
Chapter Four: Art Unions and the Changing Face of Victorian GamblingCordelia Smith
Chapter Five: El Metálico LordMoney and Mythmaking in Thomas Cochrane’s 1859 Narrative of Services in the Liberation of Chili, Peru, and Brazil from Spanish and Portuguese DominationJennifer Hayward
Chapter Six: From Cooperation to ConcentrationSocialism, Salvationism, and the “Indian Beggar”Suzanne Daly
Chapter Seven: Walter Scott’s Two Nations and the State of the Textile Industry in BritainKathryn Pratt Russell
Chapter Eight: AntidomesticThe Afterlife of Wills and the Politics of Foreign Investment, 1850–85Marlene Tromp
Contributors
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.5.2016
• Reihe/Serie: Series in Victorian Studies
• Verlagsort: Athens
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
• ISBN-10: 0-8214-4547-2 / 0821445472
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8214-4547-1 / 9780821445471