From Dickens to Dracula : Gothic, economics, and Victorian fiction
Gail Turley Houston (Author)
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 particularly of 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 economic concerns. Houston pays particular attention to the term "panic" as it moved between its double uses as a banking term and a defining emotion in sensational and Gothic fiction. This stimulating interdisciplinary book reveals that the worlds of Victorian economics and Gothic fiction, seemingly separate, actually complemented and enriched each other
Print Book, English, 2005
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2005
Electronic books
xv, 165 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9780521846776, 9781107152533, 9780511484841, 0521846773, 1107152534, 0511484844
58556265
Banking on panic : the historical record and a theoretical frame
Gothic economies in Bagehot, Marx, and Lord Overstone
The ghost and the accountant : investing in panic in Villette
"The Whole Duty of Man" : circulating circulation in Dickens's Little Dorrit
"Bankruptcy at my heels" : Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde, and the bankerization of identity
Bankerization panic and the corporate personality in Dracula
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