VICTORIAN INVESTMENTS by Nancy Henry (Editor), Cannon Schmitt (Editor) ( 9780253220271 )

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VICTORIAN INVESTMENTS
NEW PERSPECTIVES ON FINANCE AND CULTURE

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Nancy Henry (Editor), Cannon Schmitt (Editor)

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0253220270

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INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

26 November, 2008

Pages:

264

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Offers ways of understanding the relationship between the financial system in Great Britain and other aspects of Victorian society and culture.

Synopsis:

Victorian Investments explores the relationship between the financial system in Great Britain and other aspects of Victorian society and culture. Building on the special journal issue of Victorian Studies devoted to Victorian investments, this volume is the first to define an interdisciplinary field of study emerging in the space between Marxist critiques of capitalism and traditional histories of business and economics. The contributors demonstrate how phenomena such as the expansion of colonial and foreign markets, the broadening of the investor base through the advent of limited liability, and the rise of financial journalism gave rise to a "culture of investment" that affected Victorian Britons at every level of society and influenced every kind of cultural production. Drawing together work by prominent historians as well as literary and cultural critics, Victorian Investments both defines the methodologies and perspectives that characterize an existing body of scholarship and pushes that scholarship in new directions, demonstrating the signal role of economic developments in Victorian culture and society.

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