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Culture & money in the nineteenth century, abstracting economics, edited by Daniel Bivona, Marlene Tromp

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Culture & money in the nineteenth century

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edited by Daniel Bivona, Marlene Tromp

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abstracting economics

Since the 1980s, scholars have made the case for examining nineteenth-century culture✹particularly literary output ✹ through the lens of economics. In Culture and Money in the Nineteenth Century: Abstracting Economics, two luminaries in the field of Victorian studies, Daniel Bivona and Marlene Tromp, have collected contributions from leading thinkers that push New Economic Criticism in new and exciting directions. Spanning the Americas, India, England, and Scotland, this volume adopts an inclusive, global view of the cultural effects of economics and exchange. Contributors use the concept of abstraction to show how economic thought and concerns around money permeated all aspects of nineteenth-century culture, from the language of wills to arguments around the social purpose of art. The characteristics of investment and speculation; the fraught symbolic and practical meanings of paper money to the Victorians; the shifting value of goods, services, and ideas; the evolving legal conceptualizations of artistic ownership✹all of these, contributors argue, are essential to understanding nineteenth-century culture in Britain and beyond.--, Provided by Publisher

Introduction. Abstracting Economics Part One. Broad Abstractions: Character, Professional Expertise, and Nature One. Born to the Business: Heredity, Ability, and Commercial Character in Late Victorian Britain Two. Shifting the Ground of Monetary Politics: The Case of the 1870s Three. The Comparative Advantages of Survival: Darwin's Origin, Competition, and the Economy of Nature Part Two. Particular Abstractions: Economics and Culture Four. Art Unions and the Changing Face of Victorian Gambling Five. El Metálico Lord: Money and Mythmaking in Thomas Cochrane's 1859 Narrative of Services in the Liberation of Chili, Peru, and Brazil from Spanish and Portuguese Domination Six. From Cooperation to Concentration: Socialism, Salvationism, and the "Indian Beggar"Seven. Walter Scott's Two Nations and the State of the Textile Industry in Britain Eight. Antidomestic: The Afterlife of Wills and the Politics of Foreign Investment, 1850✹85 Contributors