Nancy Henry

Women, Literature and Finance in Victorian Britain

Cultures of Investment

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Women, Literature and Finance in Victorian Britain: Cultures of Investment defines the cultures that emerged in response to the democratization of the stock market in nineteenth-century Britain when investing provided access to financial independence for women. Victorian novels represent those economic networks in realistic detail and are preoccupied with the intertwined economic and affective lives of characters. Analyzing evidence about the lives of real investors together with fictional examples, including case studies of four authors who were also investors, Nancy Henry argues that investing was not just something women did in Victorian B… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-3-319-94330-5
EAN: 9783319943305
Produktnummer: 27417823
Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Seitenangabe: 284 S.
Masse: H21.6 cm x B15.3 cm x D2.1 cm 498 g
Abbildungen: Book; Bibliographie
Gewicht: 498

Über den Autor

Nancy Henry is the Nancy Goslee Professor of English at the University of Tennessee, USA. She is the author of George Eliot and the British Empire (2002), The Cambridge Introduction to George Eliot (2008) and The Life of George Eliot (2012) and co-editor of Victorian Investments: New Perspectives on Finance and Literature (2009).