Women, Literature and Finance in Victorian Britain

Cultures of Investment

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Nancy Henry

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Hardback

Series:

Palgrave Studies in Literature, Culture and Economics

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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.

Author Biography:

Nancy Henry is the Nancy Goslee Professor of English at the University of Tennessee, USA. She is the author of George Eliot and the British Empire (2002), The Cambridge Introduction to George Eliot (2008) and The Life of George Eliot (2012) and co-editor of Victorian Investments: New Perspectives on Finance and Literature (2009).

Release date Australia

September 14th, 2018

Author

Nancy Henry

Series

Palgrave Studies in Literature, Culture and Economics

Pages

284

Edition

1st ed. 2018

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

IX, 284 p.

ISBN-13

9783319943305

Product ID

28116438

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