The Vulgar Question Of Money

Author : Elsie B. Michie
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421402327
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vulgar Question of Money written by Elsie B. Michie and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2011-09-15 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a familiar story line in nineteenth-century English novels: a hero must choose between money and love, between the wealthy, materialistic, status-conscious woman who could enhance his social position and the poorer, altruistic, independent-minded woman whom he loves. Elsie B. Michie explains what this common marriage plot reveals about changing reactions to money in British culture. It was in the novel that writers found space to articulate the anxieties surrounding money that developed along with the rise of capitalism in nineteenth-century England. Michie focuses in particular on the character of the wealthy heiress and how she, unlike her male counterpart, represents the tensions in British society between the desire for wealth and advancement and the fear that economic development would blur the traditional boundaries of social classes. Michie explores how novelists of the period captured with particular vividness England’s ambivalent emotional responses to its own financial successes and engaged questions identical to those raised by political economists and moral philosophers. Each chapter reads a novelist alongside a contemporary thinker, tracing the development of capitalism in Britain: Jane Austen and Adam Smith and the rise of commercial society, Frances Trollope and Thomas Robert Malthus and industrialism, Anthony Trollope and Walter Bagehot and the political influence of money, Margaret Oliphant and John Stuart Mill and professionalism and managerial capitalism, and Henry James and Georg Simmel and the shift of economic dominance from England to America. Even the great romantic novels of the nineteenth century cannot disentangle themselves from the vulgar question of money. Michie’s fresh reading of the marriage plot, and the choice between two women at its heart, shows it to be as much about politics and economics as it is about personal choice.

Author : Kimberly Anne Coles
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137338210
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cultural Politics of Blood, 1500-1900 written by Kimberly Anne Coles and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-01-26 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays of this collection explore how ideas about 'blood' in science and literature have supported, at various points in history and in various places in the circum-Atlantic world, fantasies of human embodiment and human difference that serve to naturalize existing hierarchies.

Author : Silvana Colella
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317168135
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Charlotte Riddell's City Novels and Victorian Business written by Silvana Colella and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In spite of the popularity she enjoyed during her lifetime, Charlotte Riddell (1832-1906) has received little attention from scholars. Silvana Colella makes a strong case for the relevance of Riddell's novels as narrative experiments that shed new light on the troubled experience of Victorian capitalism. Drawing on her impressive knowledge of commerce and finance, Riddell produced several novels that narrate the fate of individuals - manufacturers, accountants, entrepreneurs, City men and their female companions - who pursue the liberal dream of self-determination in the unstable world of London business. Colella situates novels such as Too Much Alone, George Geith, The Race for Wealth, Austin Friars and The Senior Partner in the broader cultural context, examining business manuals, commercial biographies, and essays to highlight Victorian constructions of the business ideal and the changing cultural status of the City of London. Combining historicist and formalist readings, Colella charts the progression of Riddell's imaginative commitment to the business world, focusing on the author's gendered awareness of the promises and disenchantments associated with the changing dynamics of capitalist modernisation. Her book enriches our understanding of Victorian business culture, the literary history of capitalism, and the intersections of gender, genre and economics.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 892 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, Art, and Finance written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Elsie B. Michie
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501724517
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Outside the Pale written by Elsie B. Michie and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elsie B. Michie here provides insightful readings of novels by Mary Shelley, Emily and Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell, and George Eliot, writers who confronted definitions of femininity which denied them full participation in literary culture. Exploring a series of abhorrent images, Michie traces the links between the Victorian definition of femininity and other forms of cultural exclusion such as race and class distinctions.

Author : Elsie Browning Michie
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195177789
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre written by Elsie Browning Michie and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Divided into three sections, this work explores a range of interpretive strategies applied to readings of "Jane Eyre". The last section includes essays that frame the historical and social contexts out of which "Jane Eyre" arose, and investigate the critical reception and afterlife of the text." - publisher.

Author : Nancy Henry
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319943316
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women, Literature and Finance in Victorian Britain written by Nancy Henry and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-30 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Jacob Needleman
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0385262426
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Money and the Meaning of Life written by Jacob Needleman and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 1994-09-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If we understood the true role of money in our lives, writes philosopher Jacob Needleman, we would not think simply in terms of spending it or saving it. Money exerts a deep emotional influence on who we are and what we tell ourselves we can never have. Our long unwillingness to understand the emotional and spiritual effects of money on us is at the heart of why we have come to know the price of everything, and the value of nothing. Money has everything to do with the pursuit of an idealistic life, while at the same time, it is at the root of our daily frustrations. On a social level, money has a profound impact on the price of progress. Needleman shows how money slowly began to haunt us, from the invention of coins in Biblical times (when money was created to rescue the community good, not for self gain), through its hypnotic appeal in our money-obsessed era. This is a remarkable book that combines myth and psychology, the poetry of the Sufis and the wisdom of King Solomon, along with Jacob Needleman's searching of his own soul and his culture to explain how money can become a unique means of self-knowledge. As part of the Currency paperback line, it includes a "User's Guide" an introduction and discussion guide created for the paperback by the author -- to help readers make practical use of the book's ideas.

Author : United States House of Representatives
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1106 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book House Documents written by United States House of Representatives and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 1106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : G.B. Sansom
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462916740
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Japan written by G.B. Sansom and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1931, this classic work of interpretative Japanese scholarship was revised in 1946 and again in 1952. Although termed "a short history," the book—the only distinguished general survey of Japanese history in English before World War II—covers the economic, social, and religious changes in Japan from the fourth through to the nineteenth century and the breakdown of feudalism. Based on both primary and secondary sources in Japan, Sansom makes plain the way Japanese have come, and shows why they are what they are, enabling the reader to get some grip on the situation in the Far East. Fine plates, line drawings, a map, and an excellent index complement this instructive and fascinating Japanese history book.