Women, Literature and Finance in Victorian Britain Cultures of Investment /

• Main Author: Henry, Nancy (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Culture and Economics
• Subjects: Literature-History and criticism.; Literature, Modern-19th century.; Economic history.; Literary History.; Nineteenth-Century Literature.; Economic History.

Women, Literature and Finance in Victorian Britain: Cultures of Investment defines the cultures that emerged in response to the democratization of the stock market in nineteenth-century Britain when investing provided access to financial independence for women. Victorian novels represent those econo...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Women Investors in Fact
• Chapter 3: Investment Cultures in Dickens, Trollope and Gissing
• Chapter 4: Elizabeth Gaskell: Investment Cultures and Global Contexts
• Chapter 5: George Eliot: Money's Past and Money's Future
• Chapter 6: Charlotte Riddell's Financial Life and Fiction
• Chapter 7: Margaret Oliphant, Women and Money
• Chapter 8: Conclusion.