Culture and Money in the Nineteenth Century
Ohio University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8214-2606-7 (ISBN)
Since the 1980s, scholars have made the case for examining nineteenth-century culture—particularly literary output—through the lens of economics. In Culture and Money in the Nineteenth Century: Abstracting Economics, two luminaries in the field of Victorian studies, Daniel Bivona and Marlene Tromp, have collected contributions from leading thinkers that push New Economic Criticism in new and exciting directions.
Spanning the Americas, India, England, and Scotland, this volume adopts an inclusive, global view of the cultural effects of economics and exchange. Contributors use the concept of abstraction to show how economic thought and concerns around money permeated all aspects of nineteenth-century culture, from the language of wills to arguments around the social purpose of art.
The characteristics of investment and speculation; the fraught symbolic and practical meanings of paper money to the Victorians; the shifting value of goods, services, and ideas; the evolving legal conceptualizations of artistic ownership—all of these, contributors argue, are essential to understanding nineteenth-century culture in Britain and beyond.
Contributors: Daniel Bivona, Suzanne Daly, Jennifer Hayward, Aeron Hunt, Roy Kreitner, Kathryn Pratt Russell, Cordelia Smith, and Marlene Tromp.
Daniel Bivona is the author of Desire and Contradiction: Imperial Visions and Domestic Debates in Victorian Literature, British Imperial Literature, 1870 to 1940: Writing and the Administration of Empire, and (with Roger B. Henkle) The Imagination of Class: Masculinity and the Victorian Urban Poor. He teaches at Arizona State University. Marlene Tromp is the author of Altered States: Sex, Nation, Drugs, and Self-Transformation in Victorian Spiritualism and The Private Rod: Marital Violence, Sensation, and the Law in Victorian Britain as well as an editor or contributor to other volumes. She is president of the North American Victorian Studies Association and teaches at Arizona State University.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Abstracting Economics
Daniel Bivona and Marlene Tromp
Part ONE: Broad Abstractions
Character, Professional Expertise, and Nature
Chapter One: Born to the Business
Heredity, Ability, and Commercial Character in Late Victorian Britain
Aeron Hunt
Chapter Two: Shifting the Ground of Monetary Politics
The Case of the 1870s
Roy Kreitner
Chapter Three: The Comparative Advantages of Survival
Darwin’s Origin, Competition, and the Economy of Nature
Daniel Bivona
Part TWO: Particular Abstractions
Economics and Culture
Chapter Four: Art Unions and the Changing Face of Victorian Gambling
Cordelia Smith
Chapter Five: El Metálico Lord
Money and Mythmaking in Thomas Cochrane’s 1859 Narrative of Services in the Liberation of Chili, Peru, and Brazil from Spanish and Portuguese Domination
Jennifer Hayward
Chapter Six: From Cooperation to Concentration
Socialism, Salvationism, and the “Indian Beggar”
Suzanne Daly
Chapter Seven: Walter Scott’s Two Nations and the State of the Textile Industry in Britain
Kathryn Pratt Russell
Chapter Eight: Antidomestic
The Afterlife of Wills and the Politics of Foreign Investment, 1850–85
Marlene Tromp
Contributors
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 13.09.2023 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Series in Victorian Studies |
| Verlagsort | Athens |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8214-2606-0 / 0821426060 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8214-2606-7 / 9780821426067 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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