From Dickens to Dracula
Gothic, Economics, and Victorian Fiction
Ranging from the panoramic novels of Dickens to the horror of Dracula, Gail Turley Houston examines the ways in which the language and imagery of economics, commerce and banking are transformed in Victorian Gothic fiction, and traces literary and uncanny elements in economic writings of the period. Houston shows how banking crises were often linked with ghosts or inexplicable non-human forces and financial panic was figured through Gothic or supernatural means. In Little Dorrit and Villette characters are literally haunted by money, while the unnameable intimations of Dracula and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde are represented alongside realist economi…
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- ISBN: 978-0-511-12410-5
- EAN: 9780511124105
- Produktnummer: 13817341
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
- Seitenangabe: 0 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 2'537 KB
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