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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 Particularly Of 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. Banking On Panic : The Historical Record And A Theoretical Frame -- Gothic Economies In Bagehot, Marx, And Lord Overstone -- The Ghost And The Accountant : Investing In Panic In Vil

Author

Gail Turley Houston

Publisher

Cambridge, UK ; New York: Cambridge University Press

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780511126246

Subjects

History, Economics, Fiction