The hell of the English : bankruptcy and the Victorian novel / Barbara Weiss
1986, First Edition. Lewisburg [Pa.] London ; Cranbury, NJ : Bucknell University Press ; Associated University Presses. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #405133
ISBN: 0838750990
Physical description; 208 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-205) and index. Contents; The reality of bankruptcy -- The specter of bankruptcy in popular art -- The major novelists' view of bankruptcy -- Bankruptcy as metaphor: the threatened self (The mill on the floss and others) -- Bankruptcy as metaphor: moral and spiritual rebirth (Dombey and son, The Newcomes) -- The development of corporate capitalism -- Bankruptcy as metaphor: social apocalypse (Little Dorrit, The way we live now) -- Appendix: the trouble with bankruptcy statistics. Subjects; English fiction 19th century History and criticism. Bankruptcy in literature. Didactic fiction, English History and criticism. Capitalists and financiers in literature. Middle class in literature. Economics in literature.
Price: €60.00