From Dickens to Dracula : Gothic, economics, and Victorian fiction /
Gail Turley Houston examines how the language and imagery of economics are transformed in Gothic fiction, and traces literary and uncanny elements in economic writings of the period. This stimulating interdisciplinary book reveals that the worlds of Victorian economics and Gothic fiction, seemingly...
| מחבר ראשי: | |
|---|---|
| פורמט: | Licensed eBooks |
| שפה: | אנגלית |
| יצא לאור: |
Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2005.
|
| סדרה: | Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;
48. |
| גישה מקוונת: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=138990 |
תוכן הענינים:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Epigraph; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; CHAPTER 1 Banking on panic: the historical record and a theoretical frame; CHAPTER 2 Gothic economies in Bagehot, Marx, and Lord Overstone; CHAPTER 3 The ghost and the accountant: investing in panic in Villette; CHAPTER 4 "The Whole Duty of Man": circulating circulation in Dickens's Little Dorrit; CHAPTER 5 "Bankruptcy at my heels": Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde, and the bankerization of identity; CHAPTER 6 Bankerization panic and the corporate personality in Dracula; Notes; Index.