Realizing Capital – Financial and Psychic Economies in Victorian Form Kornbluh
Realizing CapitalFinancial and Psychic Economies in Victorian Form\nAuthor(s): Anna Kornbluh\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Fordham University Press, United States\nImprint: Fordham University Press\nISBN-13: 9780823254972, 978-0823254972\nSynopsis\nDuring a tumultuous period when financial speculation began rapidly to outpace industrial production and consumption, Victorian financial journalists commonly explained the instability of finance by criticizing its inherent artificedrawing persistent attention to what they called \""fictitious capital.\"" In a shift that naturalized this artifice, this critique of fictitious capital virtually disappeared by the 1860s, replaced by notions of fickle investor psychology and mental equilibrium encapsulated in the fascinating metaphor of \""psychic economy.\""\n In close rhetorical readings of financial journalism, political economy, and the works of Dickens, Eliot, and Trollope, Kornbluh examines the psychological framing of economics, one of the .
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