Financial Speculation in Victorian Fiction : Plotting Money and the Novel Genre, 1815-1901 /

This book explores the ways in which financial speculation was imagined and turned into narratives in Victorian Britain. Since there clearly was more to literature's use of the stock market than a mere reflection of contemporary economic crises alone, a reappraisal of the Victorians' fasci...

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Autore principale: Wagner, Tamara S., 1976-
Natura: Elettronico eBook
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 2010.
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Sommario:
  • Plotting financial speculation : the making of stock-market villains
  • Silver-fork speculation and the making of financial fiction
  • The sensational stock-market novel
  • Speculators abroad
  • Speculators at home.