From Dickens to Dracula - Gothic, Economics, and Victorian Fiction

Informationen zum Autor Gail Turley Houston is Associate Professor of English at the University of New Mexico. Zusammenfassung Gail Turley Houston examines how the language and imagery of economics are transformed in Gothic fiction! and traces literary and uncanny elements in economic writings of the period. This stimulating interdisciplinary book reveals that the worlds of Victorian economics and Gothic fiction! seemingly separate! actually complemented and enriched each other. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1. Banking on panic: the historical record and a theoretical frame; 2. Gothic economies in Bagehot, Marx and Lord Overstone; 3. The ghost and the accountant: investing in panic in Villette; 4. 'The whole duty of man': circulating circulation in Dickens's Little Dorrit; 5. 'Bankruptcy at my heels': Dr Jekyll, Mr Hyde and the bankerization of identity; 6. Bankerization panic and the corporate personality in Dracula; Notes; Index.

About the author

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

Product details

• Authors: Houston Gail Turley, Gail Turley Houston, Gail Turley (University of New Mexico) Houston
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.11.2007
• EAN: 9780521045797
• ISBN: 978-0-521-04579-7
• No. of pages: 188
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteent
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies