Anna Kornbluh

Realizing Capital

Financial and Psychic Economies in Victorian Form

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Traces modern rhetorical and ideological connections between finance and psychology first generated in the Victorian period in the journalism of Walter Bagehot and David Morier Evans; the novels of Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Anthony Trollope; and the critical works of Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 383g
• ISBN-13: 9780823280384
• ISBN-10: 0823280381
• Artikelnr.: 50687992

Autorenporträt

Anna Kornbluh is Associate Professor of English at the University of Illinois, Chicago. She coordinates InterCcECT, the Inter Chicago Circle for Experimental Critical Theory, and is a founding member of the V21 Collective (Victorian Studies for the Twenty-First Century).

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction. "A Case of Metaphysics": Realizing Capital
1. Fictitious Capital/Real Psyche: Metalepsis, Psychologism, and the
Grounds of Finance
2. Investor Ironies in Great Expectations
3. The Economic Problem of Sympathy: Parabasis and Interest in Middlemarch
4. "Money Expects Money": Satiric Credit in The Way We Live Now
5. London, Nineteenth Century, Capital of Realism: On Marx's Victorian
Novel
6. Psychic Economy and Its Vicissitudes: Freud's Economic Hypothesis
Epilogue: The Psychic Life of Finance
Notes
Works Cited
Index