Anna Kornbluh

Realizing Capital (eBook, PDF)

Financial and Psychic Economies in Victorian Form

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Produktbeschreibung

During a tumultuous period when financial speculation began rapidly to outpace industrial production and consumption, Victorian financial journalists commonly explained the instability of finance by criticizing its inherent artificeGCodrawing persistent attention to what they called GCGBPfictitious capital.GC In a shift that naturalized this artifice, this critique of fictitious capital virtually disappeared by the 1860s, being replaced by notions of fickle investor psychology and mental equilibrium encapsulated in the fascinating metaphor of GCGBPpsychic economy.GCIn close rhetorical readings of financial journalism, political economy, and the works of Dickens, Eliot, and Trollope, Kornbluh examines the psychological framing of economics, one of the nineteenth centuryGs most enduring legacies, reminding us that the current dominant paradigm for understanding financial crisis has a history of its own. She shows how novels illuminate this displacement and ironize ideological metaphors linking psychology and economics, thus demonstrating literatureGs unique facility for evaluating ideas in process. Inheritors of this novelistic project, Marx and Freud each advance a critique of psychic economy that refuses to naturalize capitalism.This work, published as part of a program providing publication assistance, received financial support from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States and FACE (French American Cultural Exchange).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780823254996
• Artikelnr.: 44781648

Autorenporträt

Anna Kornbluh

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