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Victorian Investments explores the relationship between the financial system in Great Britain and other aspects of Victorian society and culture. Building on the special journal issue of Victorian Studies devoted to Victorian investments, this volume is the first to define an interdisciplinary field of study emerging in the space between Marxist critiques of capitalism and traditional histories of business and economics. The contributors demonstrate how phenomena such as the expansion of colonial and foreign markets, the broadening of the investor base through the advent of limited liability, and the rise of financial journalism gave rise to a "culture of investment" that affected Victorian Britons at every level of society and influenced every kind of cultural production. Drawing together work by prominent historians as well as literary and cultural critics, Victorian Investments both defines the methodologies and perspectives that characterize an existing body of scholarship and pushes that scholarship in new directions, demonstrating the signal role of economic developments in Victorian culture and society.

Finance in literature. --- Finance --- Investments --- Funding --- Funds --- Economics --- Currency question --- Investing --- Investment management --- Portfolio --- Disinvestment --- Loans --- Saving and investment --- Speculation --- Social aspects --- History --- Finance in literature

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"The greed, excess, and decadence of the long 1980s has been famously chronicled, critiqued, and satirized in epochal works like White Noise by Don DeLillo, American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis, and Tom Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities. Leigh Claire La Berge offers an in-depth study of these fictions alongside the key moments of financial history that inform them, contending that throughout the 1980s, novelists, journalists, and filmmakers began to reimagine the capitalist economy as one that was newly personal, masculine, and anxiety producing. The study's first half links the linguistic to the technological by exploring the arrival of ATMs and their ubiquity in postmodern American literature. In transformative readings of novels such as White Noise and American Psycho, La Berge traces how the ATM serves as a symbol of anxious isolation and the erosion of interpersonal communication. A subsequent chapter on Ellis' novel and Jane Smiley's Good Faith explores how male protagonists in each develop unique associations between money and masculinity. The second half of the monograph features chapters that attend to works-most notably Oliver Stone's Wall Street and Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities-that capture aspects of the arrogance and recklessness that led to the savings-and-loan crisis and the 1987 stock market crash. Concluding with a coda on the recent Occupy Wall Street Movement and four short stories written in its wake, Scandals and Abstraction demonstrates how economic forces continue to remain a powerful presence in today's fiction"--

American fiction --- Money in literature. --- Finance in literature. --- Capitalism and literature. --- Financial crises in literature. --- Literature and capitalism --- Literature --- History and criticism.

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Defoe, Daniel --- Knowledge --- Economics --- England --- History --- 18th century --- Finance --- Fiction --- Technique --- Economics in literature --- Finance in literature --- Defoe, Daniel, - 1661?-1731 - Knowledge - Economics. --- Economics - England - History - 18th century. --- Finance - England - History - 18th century. --- Finance in literature. --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Economics in literature. --- Technique.

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English literature --- Finance in literature --- Economics --- Economics and literature --- Literature --- Literature and economics --- Economic theory --- Political economy --- Social sciences --- Economic man --- History and criticism --- Psychological aspects --- History --- Economic aspects

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During a tumultuous period when financial speculation began rapidly to outpace industrial production and consumption, Victorian financial journalists commonly explained the instability of finance by criticizing its inherent artifice—drawing persistent attention to what they called “fictitious capital.” In a shift that naturalized this artifice, this critique of fictitious capital virtually disappeared by the 1860's, replaced by notions of fickle investor psychology and mental equilibrium encapsulated in the fascinating metaphor of “psychic economy. ”In close rhetorical readings of financial journalism, political economy, and the works of Dickens, Eliot, and Trollope, Kornbluh examines the psychological framing of economics, one of the nineteenth century’s most enduring legacies, reminding us that the current dominant paradigm for understanding financial crisis has a history of its own. She shows how novels illuminate this displacement and ironize ideological metaphors linking psychology and economics, thus demonstrating literature’s unique facility for evaluating ideas in process. Inheritors of this novelistic project, Marx and Freud each advance a critique of psychic economy that refuses to naturalize capitalism.

Economics and literature --- Economics --- Finance in literature. --- English literature --- Economic theory --- Political economy --- Social sciences --- Economic man --- Literature --- Literature and economics --- History --- Psychological aspects --- History and criticism. --- Economic aspects --- Marx. --- Marxism. --- Psychic Economy. --- Psychoanalysis. --- crisis. --- economics. --- finance. --- freud. --- novel. --- realism. --- theory. --- victorian.