Realizing capital : financial and psychic economies in Victorian form /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kornbluh, Anna
Corporate Author:	Ebook Library
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Fordham University Press, [2014]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Economics and literature > England > History > 19th century. Economics > England > Psychological aspects. English literature > 19th century > History and criticism. Finance in literature. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

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.