Personal business : character and commerce in Victorian literature and culture /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hunt, Aeron, 1969- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2014.
Series:	Victorian literature and culture series.
Subjects:	English literature > 19th century > History and criticism. Economics and literature > Great Britain > History > 19th century. Literature and society > Great Britain > History > 19th century. Finance, Personal > Great Britain > History. Economics in literature. Business in literature. Economics and literature. English literature. Finance, Personal. Literature and society. Great Britain. 1800 - 1899 Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.

Table of Contents:

The trusty agent: problems of confidence in Dickens's family firm
Routinized charisma and the romance of trade: the story of commercial character, 1850-1885
Reading ruin: failure and the forms of character, 1849-1865
The heir apparent: gender and the transmission of talent in Margaret Oliphant's Hester.