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From Dickens to Dracula: Gothic, Economics, and Victorian Fiction

From Dickens to Dracula: Gothic, Economics, and Victorian Fiction

Houston, Gail Turley

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cultu, Book 48

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0521846773
ISBN13: 9780521846776
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jun 30 2005
Pages: 188
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.32 Depth: 9.28
Language: English
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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