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Charlotte Riddell's city novels and Victorian business : narrating capitalism
Yazar:
Colella, Silvana, author.
ISBN:
9781472454737

9781315571409
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Fiziksel Tanımlama:
ix, 265 pages ; 24 cm.
İçerik:
Victorian business and the city of London -- "The wisdom of business": Victorian constructions of the business ideal -- The golden city and the spectral -- Part 2. Narrating capitalism: Charlotte Riddell's novels of the city -- Glorious uncertainty: Too much alone -- Novel experiments: City and suburb -- Moments of balance: George Geith of Fen Court -- Dust and dirt: The race for wealth -- A liberal education: Austin Friar -- Rewriting the crisis: Mortomley's estate -- Past and present: The senior partner and Mitre Court -- Epilogue: a struggle for fame.
Özet:
n spite of the popularity she enjoyed during her lifetime, Charlotte Riddell (1832-1906) has received little attention from scholars. Silvana Colella makes a strong case for the relevance of Riddell's novels as narrative experiments that shed new light on the troubled experience of Victorian capitalism. Drawing on her impressive knowledge of commerce and finance, Riddell produced several novels that narrate the fate of individuals - manufacturers, accountants, entrepreneurs, City men and their female companions - who pursue the liberal dream of self-determination in the unstable world of London business. Colella situates novels such as Too Much Alone, George Geith, The Race for Wealth, Austin Friars and The Senior Partner in the broader cultural context, examining business manuals, commercial biographies, and essays to highlight Victorian constructions of the business ideal and the changing cultural status of the City of London. Combining historicist and formalist readings, Colella charts the progression of Riddell's imaginative commitment to the business world, focusing on the author's gendered awareness of the promises and disenchantments associated with the changing dynamics of capitalist modernisation. Her book enriches our understanding of Victorian business culture, the literary history of capitalism, and the intersections of gender, genre and economics.
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