Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. ix, 205 p.; 24 cm.

Series statement

1. Studies in major literary authors

Uniform title

1. Studies in major literary authors (Unnumbered)

Subject

1. Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 > Knowledge > Economics
2. Capitalists and financiers in literature
3. Economics in literature
4. Capitalism and literature > Great Britain > History > 19th century
5. Finance in literature
6. Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 > Characters > Capitalists and financiers

Contents

1. "I hold myself released from such hard bargains as these" : Nicholas Nickleby and "brotherly" capitalism -- "With what strange mastery it seized him for itself" : the conversion of the financier in A Christmas carol -- "Terribly wild ran the panic cry" : finance, panic, and the struggle for life in Little Dorrit -- "Among the dying and the dead" : metonymy and finance capitalism in Our mutual friend.

Call number

1. JFE 06-11958

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-200) and index.

Author

1. Jarvie, Paul, 1949-

Title

1. Ready to trample on all human law : financial capitalism in the fiction of Charles Dickens / Paul A. Jarvie.

Imprint

1. New York : Routledge, 2005.

Series

1. Studies in major literary authors
2. Studies in major literary authors (Unnumbered)

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-200) and index.

LCCN

1. 2005017511

ISBN

1. 0415975247 (acid-free paper)

Research call number

1. JFE 06-11958