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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 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.

Economics and literature --- Economics in literature. --- Financial crises in literature. --- Stoker, Bram, --- Dracula, Count (Fictitious character). --- English fiction --- Financial crises --- Gothic revival (Literature) --- Horror tales, English --- Money in literature. --- History --- History and criticism. --- Dickens, Charles, --- Knowledge --- Economics. --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Dracula, Count (Fictitious character) --- Crashes, Financial --- Crises, Financial --- Financial crashes --- Financial panics --- Panics (Finance) --- Stock exchange crashes --- Stock market panics --- Crises --- Literature and economics --- Economic aspects --- Dickens, Charles --- Dikensi, Čʻarlz, --- Dickens, Karol, --- Dikens, Charlz, --- Ti-keng-ssu, --- Digengsi, --- Dikkens, Charlz, --- Dikensas, Čarlzas, --- Ṭikkan̲s, Cārls, --- Ṭikkan̲cu, Cārlacu, --- Ṭikkan̲s, Cārlas, --- Диккенс, Чарлз, --- דיקינס, צ׳רלס, --- דיקנס, ַ צ׳רלז --- דיקנס, טשרלס --- דיקנס, צ׳רלז, --- דיקנס, צ׳רלס --- דיקנס, צ׳רלס, --- דיקענס, טש --- דיקענס, טשארלז --- דיקענס, טשארלז, --- דיקענס, טש., --- דיקקענס, טשארלז --- טשרלס, דיקנס --- チャールズ.ディケンズ, --- 狄更斯查尔斯, --- Boz, --- Sparks, Timothy, --- DICKENS (CHARLES), 1812-1870 --- STOKER (BRAM), 1847-1912 --- ROMAN ANGLAIS --- ECONOMIE ET LITTERATURE --- CRISES BOURSIERES --- LITTERATURE D'EPOUVANTE ANGLAISE --- NEO-GOTHIQUE (LITTERATURE) --- ARGENT DANS LA LITTERATURE --- DRACULA --- 19E SIECLE --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE --- GRANDE-BRETAGNE