Realizing capital
financial and psychic economies in Victorian form
Realizing capital
financial and psychic economies in Victorian form
Traces modern rhetorical and ideological connections between finance and psychology first generated in the Victorian period in the journalism of Walter Bagehot and David Morier Evans; the novels of Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Anthony Trollope;...
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Traces modern rhetorical and ideological connections between finance and psychology first generated in the Victorian period in the journalism of Walter Bagehot and David Morier Evans; the novels of Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Anthony Trollope; and the critical works of Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud. Introduction: 'A case of metaphysics': realizing capital -- Fictitious capital/real psyche: metalepsis, psychologism, and the grounds of finance -- Investor ironies in Great Expectations -- The economic problem of sympathy: parabasis and interest in Middlemarch -- 'Money expects money': satiric credit in The Way We Live Now -- London, nineteenth century, capital of realism: on Marx's Victorian novel -- Psychic economy and its vicissitudes: Freud's economic hypothesis -- Epilogue: The psychic life of finance
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