Victorian Literature and Finance

• An important contribution to 'the new economic criticism'
• Considers poetry and drama as well as novels

Readership: Academics in English literature, cultural studies, history, and economics.

Edited by Francis O'Gorman, Professor of Victorian Literature, University of Leeds

"Victorian Literature and Finance offers a rich sampling of new work in this vitally important area of Victorian Studies." - Daniel Vivona, The Review of English Studies

Francis O'Gorman: Introduction
1: Nicholas Shrimpton: 'Even these metallic problems have their melodramatic side': Money in Victorian Literature
2: Gordon Bigelow: Inside Out: Value and Display in Thomas De Quincey and Isaac Butt
3: Catherine Seville: Edward Bulwer Lytton Dreams of Copyright: 'It might make me a rich man'
4: Alison Chapman: 'Vulgar needs': Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Profit, and Literary Value
5: Jane Moody: The Drama of Capital: Risk, Belief, and Liability on the Victorian Stage
6: Nancy Henry: 'Ladies do it?': Victorian Women Investors in Fact and Fiction
7: Tara McGann: Literary Realism in the Wake of Business Cycle Theory: The Way We Live Now (1875)
8: Francis O'Gorman: Speculative Fictions and the Fortunes of H. Rider Haggard
9: Josephine M. Guy: Cultural versus Financial Capital: Defining Literary Value at the Fin de Siècle