Victorian Investments: New Perspectives on Finance and Culture

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Contents Introduction: Finance, Capital, Culture Nancy Henry and Cannon Schmitt Part 1. A Prehistory of Victorian Investment 1. Signum Rememorativum, Demonstrativum, Prognostikon: Finance Capital, the Atlantic, and Slavery Ian Baucom Part 2. Cultures of Investment 2. Writing about Finance in Victorian England: Disclosure and Secrecy in the Culture of Investment Mary Poovey 3. The First Fund Managers: Life Insurance Bonuses in Victorian Britain Timothy Alborn 4. Limited Liability, Market Democracy, and the Social Organization of Production in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Britain Donna Loftus 5. Fair Enterprise or Extravagant Speculation: Investment, Speculation, and Gambling in Victorian England David C. Itzkowitz 6. Ladies of the Ticker: Women, Investment, and Fraud in England and America, 18501930 George Robb Part 3. Fictions of Investment 7. Trollope in the Stock Market: Irrational Exuberance and The Prime Minister Audrey Jaffe 8. Rushing into Eternity: Suicide and Finance in Victorian Fiction Nancy Henry 9. Rumor, Shares, and Novelistic Form: Joseph Conrad's Nostromo Cannon Schmitt Afterword Martin Daunton Bibliography List of Contributors Index

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