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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.
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Count Dracula (Fictitious character), Economics, Economics and literature, Economics in literature, English Horror tales, English fiction, Financial crises, Financial crises in literature, Gothic revival (Literature), History, History and criticism, Knowledge, Literary Criticism, Money in literature, Nonfiction, Dickens, charles, 1812-1870, English fiction, history and criticism, 19th century, Great britain, history, 19th century, Gothic revival (literature), Stoker, bram, 1847-1912, Horror tales, history and criticism, Dracula, count (fictitious character), Fiction, history and criticism, Knowledge and learningPlaces
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From Dickens to Dracula: Gothic, Economics, and Victorian Fiction (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)
February 1, 2009, Cambridge University Press
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From Dickens to Dracula: Gothic, economics, and Victorian fiction
2005, Cambridge University Press
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