Jane Ford

Metaphors of Economic Exploitation in Literature, 1885-1914

Vampiric Enterprise

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Produktbeschreibung

Metaphors of Economic Exploitation in Literature, 1885-1914 explores the complex network of metaphors that emerged around late nineteenth-century conceptions of economic self-interest.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9781032800080
• ISBN-10: 1032800089
• Artikelnr.: 70148495

Autorenporträt

Jane Ford is a Senior Lecturer in English Studies at Teesside University, UK. She is a specialist in fin-de-siècle literature and culture, particularly women's writing, the Gothic and economic themes and metaphors. She has published essays on a range of nineteenth-century writers, including Mona Caird, Olive Schreiner, Vernon Lee, Lucas Malet and Bertram Mitford. She is co-editor of two collections of essays: Economies of Desire at the Victorian Fin de Siècle: Libidinal Lives (Routledge 2016) and Lucas Malet, Dissident Pilgrim: Critical Essays (Routledge 2020).

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Vampire Economics, Rebel Rhetoric
Chapter 1: Fin-de-Siècle Socialism and the Problem of 'Fatmanism'
Chapter 2: On Vampires and Cannibals: Bertram Mitford's African Quest
Romance
Chapter 3: 'That Odd Double-Graspingness of Nature': Parasitical Intimacies
in the Writing of Henry James and Vernon Lee
Chapter 4: Divine Economy: Socialism, Capitalism, and the Fiction of Lucas
Malet
Index