The Novelist and Mammon: Literary Response to the World of Commerce in the Nineteenth Century
Author(s)
Russell, Norman
Russell, Norman
This book breaks new ground by identifying and illustrating the realities of Victorian commercial life and examining the ways in which novelists like Dickens, Thackeray, and Trollope portrayed these realities in their fiction. What exactly did Ebenezer Scrooge do for a living? How much did Dickens really know about the Stock Exchange? Why are stockbrokers the villains of so many of these novels? In answering questions like these, The Novelist and Mammon depicts a real world of frauds, villains and rogues as fascinating as any to be found in the fiction of the day.
Keywords
English fiction--History and criticism, English fiction--19th century--History and criticism, Commerce in literature, Business in literature, Economics in literature, Capitalists and financiers in literature, Businessmen in literature
English fiction--History and criticism, English fiction--19th century--History and criticism, Commerce in literature, Business in literature, Economics in literature, Capitalists and financiers in literature, Businessmen in literature
| Name in long format: | The Novelist and Mammon: Literary Response to the World of Commerce in the Nineteenth Century |
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| ISBN-10: | 0198128517 |
| ISBN-13: | 9780198128519 |
| Book pages: | 288 |
| Book language: | en |
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Dimensions: | Height: 8.75 Inches, Length: 5.63 Inches, Width: 0.788 Inches |
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