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Book Synopsis The Vulgar Question of Money by : Elsie B. Michie
Download or read book The Vulgar Question of Money written by Elsie B. Michie and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2011-09-15 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Charlotte Riddell's City Novels and Victorian Business by : Silvana Colella
Download or read book Charlotte Riddell's City Novels and Victorian Business written by Silvana Colella and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Railway News, Finance and Joint-stock Companies' Journal by :
Download or read book Railway News, Finance and Joint-stock Companies' Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 1020 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Women, Literature and Finance in Victorian Britain by : Nancy Henry
Download or read book Women, Literature and Finance in Victorian Britain written by Nancy Henry and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-30 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Cultural Politics of Blood, 1500-1900 by : Kimberly Anne Coles
Download or read book The Cultural Politics of Blood, 1500-1900 written by Kimberly Anne Coles and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-01-26 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Japan written by G.B. Sansom and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, Art, and Finance by :
Download or read book The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, Art, and Finance written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Tale of Two Capitalisms by : Supritha Rajan
Download or read book A Tale of Two Capitalisms written by Supritha Rajan and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No questions are more pressing today than the ethical dimensions of global capitalism in relation to an unevenly secularized modernity. A Tale of Two Capitalisms offers a timely response to these questions by reexamining the intellectual history of capitalist economics during the nineteenth century. Rajan’s ambitious book traces the neglected relationships between nineteenth-century political economy, anthropology, and literature in order to demonstrate how these discourses buttress a dominant narrative of self-interested capitalism that obscures a submerged narrative within political economy. This submerged narrative discloses political economy’s role in burgeoning theories of religion, as well as its underlying ethos of reciprocity, communality, and just distribution. Drawing on an impressive range of literary, anthropological, and economic writings from the eighteenth through the twenty-first century, Rajan offers an inventive, interdisciplinary account of why this second narrative of capitalism has so long escaped our notice. The book presents an unprecedented genealogy of key anthropological and economic concepts, demonstrating how notions of sacrifice, the sacred, ritual, totemism, and magic remained conceptually intertwined with capitalist theories of value and exchange in both sociological and literary discourses. Rajan supplies an original framework for discussing the ethical ideals that continue to inform contemporary global capitalism and its fraught relationship to the secular. Its revisionary argument brings new insight into the history of capitalist thought and modernity that will engage scholars across a variety of disciplines.
Book Synopsis Jane Austen and the State of the Nation by : Sheryl Craig
Download or read book Jane Austen and the State of the Nation written by Sheryl Craig and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jane Austen and the State of the Nation explores Jane Austen's references to politics and to political economics and concludes that Austen was a liberal Tory who remained consistent in her political agenda throughout her career as a novelist. Read with this historical background, Austen's books emerge as state-of-the-nation or political novels.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to 'Pride and Prejudice' by : Janet Todd
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to 'Pride and Prejudice' written by Janet Todd and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-07 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named in many surveys as Britain's best-loved work of fiction, Pride and Prejudice is now a global brand, with film and television adaptations making Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy household names. With a combination of original readings and factual background information, this Companion investigates some of the sources of the novel's power. It explores key themes and topics in detail: money, land, characters and style. The history of the book's composition and first publication is set out, both in individual essays and in the section of chronology. Chapters on the critical reception, adaptations and cult of the novel reveal why it has become an enduing classic with a unique and timeless appeal.
Book Synopsis House Documents by : United States House of Representatives
Download or read book House Documents written by United States House of Representatives and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 1106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art by :
Download or read book Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art by :
Download or read book The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Banks of Issue Question by : Ernest Seyd
Download or read book The Banks of Issue Question written by Ernest Seyd and published by London, E. Stanford. This book was released on 1875 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country by : James Anthony Froude
Download or read book Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country written by James Anthony Froude and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains the first printing of Sartor resartus, as well as other works by Thomas Carlyle.
Book Synopsis Questions Communicated by Lord Overstone to the Decimal Coinage Commissioners, with Answers by : Great Britain. Decimal Coinage Commission
Download or read book Questions Communicated by Lord Overstone to the Decimal Coinage Commissioners, with Answers written by Great Britain. Decimal Coinage Commission and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Outside the Pale by : Elsie B. Michie
Download or read book Outside the Pale written by Elsie B. Michie and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elsie B. Michie here provides insightful readings of novels by Mary Shelley, Emily and Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell, and George Eliot, writers who confronted definitions of femininity which denied them full participation in literary culture. Exploring a series of abhorrent images, Michie traces the links between the Victorian definition of femininity and other forms of cultural exclusion such as race and class distinctions.
