Kornbluh, Anna.

Realizing capital : financial and psychic economies in Victorian form / Anna Kornbluh. - First edition. - 1 online resource (232 pages)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: 'A case of metaphysics': realizing capital -- Fictitious capital/real psyche: metalepsis, psychologism, and the grounds of finance -- Investor ironies in Great Expectations -- The economic problem of sympathy: parabasis and interest in Middlemarch -- 'Money expects money': satiric credit in The way we live now -- London, nineteenth century, capital of realism: on Marx's Victorian novel -- Psychic economy and its vicissitudes: Freud's economic hypothesis -- Epilogue: The psychic life of finance.




Economics and literature--History--England--19th century.
Economics--Psychological aspects--England.
English literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Finance in literature.


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