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Women, money, and the law nineteenth-century fiction, gender, and the courts / by Warren, Joyce W.

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Paper Money Men Commerce, Manhood, and the Sensational Sphere in Antebellum America / by Anthony, David, 1964-

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Paper Money Men : Commerce, Manhood, and the Sensational Sphere in Antebellum America / by Anthony, David, 1964-

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Death and money in the afternoon a history of the Spanish bullfight / by Shubert, Adrian, 1953-

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Paper Money Men : Commerce, Manhood, and the Sensational Sphere in Antebellum America / by Anthony, David, 1964-

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The moon is dead! Give us our money! : the cultural origins of an African work ethic, Natal, South Africa, 1843-1900 / by Atkins, Keletso E.

Money over mastery, family over freedom : slavery in the antebellum upper South / by Schermerhorn, Calvin, 1975-

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Standards of value money, race, and literature in America / by Germana, Michael, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Jacksonian abolitionism: money, minstrelsy, and "Uncle Tom's cabin" -- Real change: George Washington Cable's "The grandissimes" and the crime of '73 -- The gold standard of the passing novel: exploring the limits of strategic essentialism -- Black is-- an' Black ain't: "Invisible man" and the fiat of race.…”
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Financial Speculation in Victorian Fiction : Plotting Money and the Novel Genre, 1815-1901 / by Wagner, Tamara S., 1976-

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Financial Speculation in Victorian Fiction : Plotting Money and the Novel Genre, 1815-1901 / by Wagner, Tamara S., 1976-

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Wanton West madams, money, murder, and the wild women of Montana's frontier / by Morgan, Lael

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Mercenaries in British and American literature, 1790-1830 writing, fighting, and marrying for money / by Simpson, Erik, 1972-

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Paperwork fiction and mass mediacy in the Paper Age / by McLaughlin, Kevin, 1959-

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Victorian literature and finance

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Francis O'Gorman -- "Even these metallic problems have their melodramatic side" : money in Victorian literature / Nicholas Shrimpton -- Inside out : value and display in Thomas De Quincey and Isaac Butt / Gordon Bigelow -- Edward Bulwer Lytton dreams of copyright : "It might make me a rich man" / Catherine Seville -- "Vulgar needs" : Elizabeth Barrett Browning, profit, and literary value / Alison Chapman -- The drama of capital : risk, belief, and liability on the Victorian stage / Jane Moody -- "Ladies do it?" …”
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Realizing capital : financial and psychic economies in Victorian form / by Kornbluh, Anna

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: 'A case of metaphysics': realizing capital -- Fictitious capital/real psyche: metalepsis, psychologism, and the grounds of finance -- Investor ironies in Great Expectations -- The economic problem of sympathy: parabasis and interest in Middlemarch -- 'Money expects money': satiric credit in The way we live now -- London, nineteenth century, capital of realism: on Marx's Victorian novel -- Psychic economy and its vicissitudes: Freud's economic hypothesis -- Epilogue: The psychic life of finance.…”
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The collector in nineteenth-century French literature representation, identity, knowledge / by Bielecki, Emma, 1981-

Table of Contents: “…The physiology of the collector -- Of money and museums: le cousin pons and the death of the collector -- Collecting the self -- (re)collecting the past -- The poverty of taxonomy -- To create or to collect?.…”
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Reading Rio de Janeiro : literature and society in the nineteenth century / by Frank, Zephyr L., 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the Brazilian Bildungsroman -- Sonhos d'ouro -- Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas -- O coruja -- Sentimental educations -- Marriage and money -- Problems of spatial practice.…”
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Breaking the ties that bound the politics of marital strife in late imperial Russia / by Engel, Barbara Alpern

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : marriage and its discontents -- The ties that bound -- Making marriage : romantic ideals and female rhetoric -- Money matters -- Disciplining laboring husbands -- Earning my own crust of bread -- Cultivating domesticity -- The right to love -- The best interests of the child -- Conclusion : the politics of marital strife.…”
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Mercury and the making of California mining, landscape, and race, 1840-1890 / by Johnston, Andrew Scott

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: California, the quicksilver state -- British imperialism and California's quicksilver -- Money and power in California's quicksilver industry -- A geography of mercury mining in California -- Ethnic and racial hierarchies at New Almaden -- Race, technology and work in the 1870s -- Race, family, and camp life in the 1870s -- Conclusion: the legacy of mercury mining.…”
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Berlin Coquette : Prostitution and the New German Woman, 1890–1933 / by Smith, Jill Suzanne, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Berlin's bourgeois whores -- Sex, money, and marriage : prostitution as an instrument of conjugal critique -- Righteous women and lost girls : radical bourgeois feminists and the fight for moral reform -- Naughty Berlin? …”
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