The Vulgar Question Of Money
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The Vulgar Question Of Money
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Author : Elsie B. Michie
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2011-09-15
The Vulgar Question Of Money written by Elsie B. Michie and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
It is a familiar story line in nineteenth-century English novels: a hero must choose between money and love, between the wealthy, materialistic, status-conscious woman who could enhance his social position and the poorer, altruistic, independent-minded woman whom he loves. Elsie B. Michie explains what this common marriage plot reveals about changing reactions to money in British culture. It was in the novel that writers found space to articulate the anxieties surrounding money that developed along with the rise of capitalism in nineteenth-century England. Michie focuses in particular on the character of the wealthy heiress and how she, unlike her male counterpart, represents the tensions in British society between the desire for wealth and advancement and the fear that economic development would blur the traditional boundaries of social classes. Michie explores how novelists of the period captured with particular vividness England’s ambivalent emotional responses to its own financial successes and engaged questions identical to those raised by political economists and moral philosophers. Each chapter reads a novelist alongside a contemporary thinker, tracing the development of capitalism in Britain: Jane Austen and Adam Smith and the rise of commercial society, Frances Trollope and Thomas Robert Malthus and industrialism, Anthony Trollope and Walter Bagehot and the political influence of money, Margaret Oliphant and John Stuart Mill and professionalism and managerial capitalism, and Henry James and Georg Simmel and the shift of economic dominance from England to America. Even the great romantic novels of the nineteenth century cannot disentangle themselves from the vulgar question of money. Michie’s fresh reading of the marriage plot, and the choice between two women at its heart, shows it to be as much about politics and economics as it is about personal choice.
Charlotte Riddell S City Novels And Victorian Business
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Author : Silvana Colella
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-03-22
Charlotte Riddell S City Novels And Victorian Business written by Silvana Colella and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
In spite of the popularity she enjoyed during her lifetime, Charlotte Riddell (1832-1906) has received little attention from scholars. Silvana Colella makes a strong case for the relevance of Riddell's novels as narrative experiments that shed new light on the troubled experience of Victorian capitalism. Drawing on her impressive knowledge of commerce and finance, Riddell produced several novels that narrate the fate of individuals - manufacturers, accountants, entrepreneurs, City men and their female companions - who pursue the liberal dream of self-determination in the unstable world of London business. Colella situates novels such as Too Much Alone, George Geith, The Race for Wealth, Austin Friars and The Senior Partner in the broader cultural context, examining business manuals, commercial biographies, and essays to highlight Victorian constructions of the business ideal and the changing cultural status of the City of London. Combining historicist and formalist readings, Colella charts the progression of Riddell's imaginative commitment to the business world, focusing on the author's gendered awareness of the promises and disenchantments associated with the changing dynamics of capitalist modernisation. Her book enriches our understanding of Victorian business culture, the literary history of capitalism, and the intersections of gender, genre and economics.
Railway News Finance And Joint Stock Companies Journal
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1897
Railway News Finance And Joint Stock Companies Journal written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1897 with Finance categories.
Women Literature And Finance In Victorian Britain
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Author : Nancy Henry
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-08-30
Women Literature And Finance In Victorian Britain written by Nancy Henry and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
Women, Literature and Finance in Victorian Britain: Cultures of Investment defines the cultures that emerged in response to the democratization of the stock market in nineteenth-century Britain when investing provided access to financial independence for women. Victorian novels represent those economic networks in realistic detail and are preoccupied with the intertwined economic and affective lives of characters. Analyzing evidence about the lives of real investors together with fictional examples, including case studies of four authors who were also investors, Nancy Henry argues that investing was not just something women did in Victorian Britain; it was a distinctly modern way of thinking about independence, risk, global communities and the future in general.
The Cultural Politics Of Blood 1500 1900
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Author : Kimberly Anne Coles
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-01-26
The Cultural Politics Of Blood 1500 1900 written by Kimberly Anne Coles and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-26 with History categories.
The essays of this collection explore how ideas about 'blood' in science and literature have supported, at various points in history and in various places in the circum-Atlantic world, fantasies of human embodiment and human difference that serve to naturalize existing hierarchies.
Paper Money The Money Of Civilization An Issue By The State And A Legal Tender In Payment Of Taxes
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Author : James Harvey (Vice-President of the Anti-Monopoly Association in Liverpool.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1877
Paper Money The Money Of Civilization An Issue By The State And A Legal Tender In Payment Of Taxes written by James Harvey (Vice-President of the Anti-Monopoly Association in Liverpool.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1877 with categories.
Cultures Of Currencies
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Author : Joan Ramon Resina
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2022-03-10
Cultures Of Currencies written by Joan Ramon Resina and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book’s premise is not only the commonly accepted cultural relativity of economic concepts, but also the observation that the current shift in the meaning of concepts like “market,” “currency,” “exchange,” and “money” suggests that culture is undergoing a change with unpredictable economic and political consequences. The essays in the book raise basic questions concerning exchange – what is exchanged, who exchanges and how, which kind of currency is used, and indeed what is money and how does it convey and retain value over time. These issues are all classical objects of economic theory, but less often have they been approached from a cultural perspective. Works treating economic and monetary issues from a cultural perspective are few and far apart, and this book aims to contribute to such a perspective with a variety of approaches.
Japan
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Author : G.B. Sansom
language : en
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Release Date : 2015-12-08
Japan written by G.B. Sansom and has been published by Tuttle Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-08 with History categories.
Originally published in 1931, this classic work of interpretative Japanese scholarship was revised in 1946 and again in 1952. Although termed "a short history," the book—the only distinguished general survey of Japanese history in English before World War II—covers the economic, social, and religious changes in Japan from the fourth through to the nineteenth century and the breakdown of feudalism. Based on both primary and secondary sources in Japan, Sansom makes plain the way Japanese have come, and shows why they are what they are, enabling the reader to get some grip on the situation in the Far East. Fine plates, line drawings, a map, and an excellent index complement this instructive and fascinating Japanese history book.
House Documents
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Author : United States House of Representatives
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1866
House Documents written by United States House of Representatives and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1866 with categories.
The Banks Of Issue Question
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Author : Ernest Seyd
language : en
Publisher: London, E. Stanford
Release Date : 1875
The Banks Of Issue Question written by Ernest Seyd and has been published by London, E. Stanford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1875 with Bank reserves categories.