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First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (x, 221 pages) |
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data file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-211) and index. |
| Summary |
This book traces modern rhetorical and ideological connections between finance and psychology first generated in the Victorian period in the journalism of Walter Bagehot and David Morier Evans; the novels of Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Anthony Trollope; and the critical works of Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Economics and literature -- England -- History -- 19th century.
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Economics and literature. |
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England. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Economics -- England -- Psychological aspects.
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English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Economics. |
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Finance in literature.
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Finance in literature. |
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Psychological aspects. |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. |
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English literature. |
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Theory. |
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Economics -- Psychological aspects. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kornbluh, Anna. Realizing capital. First edition. New York : Fordham University Press, 2014 9780823254972 (DLC) 2013017377 (OCoLC)845084884 |
| ISBN |
9780823254989 (electronic book) |
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0823254984 (electronic book) |
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9780823254996 |
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0823254992 |
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9780823255009 |
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082325500X |
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9780823261123 |
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0823261123 |
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9780823254972 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0823254976 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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