Inhalt: | Since the 1980s, scholars have made the case for examining nineteenth-century culture - particularly literary output - through the lens of economics Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Abstracting Economics -- Part one: Broad Abstractions -- 1: Born to the Business: Heredity, Ability, and Commercial Character in Late Victorian Britain -- 2: Shifting the Ground of Monetary Politics: The Case of the 1870s -- 3: The Comparative Advantages of Survival: Darwin's Origin, Competition, and the Economy of Nature -- Part two: Particular Abstractions -- 4: Art Unions and the Changing Face of Victorian Gambling 5: El Metálico Lord: Money and Mythmaking in Thomas Cochrane's 1859 Narrative of Services in the Liberation of Chili, Peru, and Brazil from Spanish and Portuguese Domination -- 6: From Cooperation to Concentration: Socialism, Salvationism, and the "Indian Beggar" -- 7: Walter Scott's Two Nations and the State of the Textile Industry in Britain -- 8: Antidomestic: The Afterlife of Wills and the Politics of Foreign Investment, 1850-85 -- Contributors |
