Realizing Capital : : Financial and Psychic Economies in Victorian Form / / Anna Kornbluh.
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 capita...
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| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. “A Case of Metaphysics”: Realizing Capital
- 1. Fictitious Capital/Real Psyche: Metalepsis, Psychologism, and the Grounds of Finance
- 2. Investor Ironies in Great Expectations
- 3. The Economic Problem of Sympathy: Parabasis and Interest in Middlemarch
- 4. “Money Expects Money”: Satiric Credit in The Way We Live Now
- 5. London, Nineteenth Century, Capital of Realism: On Marx’s Victorian Novel
- 6. Psychic Economy and Its Vicissitudes: Freud’s Economic Hypothesis
- Epilogue: The Psychic Life of Finance
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index