From Dickens to Dracula: Gothic, Economics, and Victorian Fiction
(Part of the Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture Series)
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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 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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0521045797
ISBN13:9780521045797
Release Date:November 2007
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:188 Pages
Weight:0.62 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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