From Dickens to Dracula Gothic, Economics, and Victorian Fiction

Name: From Dickens to Dracula Gothic, Economics, and Victorian Fiction
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ISBN: 9780521846776

ISBN-10: 0521846773

ISBN-13: 9780521846776

Edition: 2005

Authors: Gail Turley Houston, Gillian Beer

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Ranging from the panoramic novels of Dickens to the horror of Dracula, Gail Turley Houston examines the ways in which the language and imagery of economics, commerce and banking are transformed in Victorian Gothic fiction, and traces literary and uncanny elements in economic writings of the period. Houston shows how banking crises were often linked with ghosts or inexplicable non-human forces and financial panic was figured through Gothic or supernatural means. In Little Dorrit and Villette characters are literally haunted by money, while the unnameable intimations of Dracula and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde are represented alongside realist economic concerns. Houston pays particular attention to…

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List price: $108.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 6/30/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 188
Size: 6.34" wide x 9.29" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English

Gail Turley Houston is Associate Professor of English at the University of New Mexico.



List of illustrations


Acknowledgments


List of abbreviations



Banking on panic: the historical record and a theoretical frame



Gothic economies in Bagehot, Marx, and Lord Overstone



The ghost and the accountant: investing in panic in Villette



"The Whole Duty of Man": circulating circulation in Dickens's Little Dorrit



"Bankruptcy at my heels": Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde, and the bankerization of identity



Bankerization panic and the corporate personality in Dracula


Notes


Index