Metaphors Of Economic Exploitation In Literature 1885 1914

Author : Jane Ford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2024
Category : Economic man
ISBN : 1032800097

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Metaphors of Economic Exploitation in Literature, 1885-1914 by Jane Ford Pdf

"Metaphors of Economic Exploitation in Literature, 1885-1914 explores the complex network of metaphors that emerged around late nineteenth-century conceptions of economic self-interest - metaphors that dramatised the predatory, conflictual and exploitative basis of relations between nations, institutions, sexes and people in a fin-de-siècle economy that was perceived by many as outwardly belligerent. More specifically, this book is about the vampire, cannibal and related genera of economic metaphor penetrate the major discourses of the period in ways that have yet to be understood. In chapters that examine socialist fiction and newspapers; the imperial quest romance; the decadent and supernatural tales of Henry James and Vernon Lee; and the Catholic novels of Lucas Malet, Ford assesses the breadth and variety of these metaphors, and considers how they filter the long-standing philosophical ideas about self-interest and the conflictual 'economic man'. This volume is essential reading for students and scholars of fin-de-siecle literature and culture as well as those with an interest in the relationship between literature, economics and anti-capitalist movements"--

Author : Jane Ford
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781040097854

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Metaphors of Economic Exploitation in Literature, 1885-1914 by Jane Ford Pdf

Metaphors of Economic Exploitation in Literature, 1885–1914 explores the complex network of metaphors that emerged around late nineteenth-century conceptions of economic self-interest – metaphors that dramatised the predatory, conflictual, and exploitative basis of relations between nations, institutions, sexes, and people in a fin-de-siècle economy that was perceived by many as outwardly belligerent. More specifically, this book is about the vampire, cannibal, and related genera of economic metaphor that penetrate the major discourses of the period in ways that have yet to be understood. In chapters that examine socialist fiction and newspapers; the imperial quest romance; the decadent and supernatural tales of Henry James and Vernon Lee; and the Catholic novels of Lucas Malet, Ford assesses the breadth and variety of these metaphors, and considers how they filter the long-standing philosophical ideas about self-interest and the conflictual ‘economic man’. This volume is essential reading for students and scholars of fin-de-siècle literature and culture as well as those with an interest in the relationship between literature, economics, and anti-capitalist movements.

Author : Anne Longmuir
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2024-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781040104064

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John Ruskin and the Victorian Woman Writer by Anne Longmuir Pdf

John Ruskin and the Victorian Woman Writer addresses the little-considered personal and literary relationships of John Ruskin and four major Victorian women writers: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Christina Rossetti. Drawing on new archival, primary research, the book provides detailed biographical contexts for each of these relationships before considering the interplay of each woman’s writing with Ruskin’s. Focusing on literature, art, economics, and gender, it offers close readings of a selection of each woman’s oeuvre alongside Ruskin’s prose to demonstrate the affinities and the moments of disagreement between Ruskin and these writers. Though primarily aimed at an academic audience, the book will also be of interest to general readers with a developed interest in nineteenth-century culture. It advances readers’ understandings of the complex web of influence that existed between Ruskin and women writers in the 1850s and 1860s, establishing the opportunities that Ruskin’s art theory offered women writers engaged with social questions and the apparent influence of these writers on Ruskin’s own emerging political economy. By analysing women writers’ responses to Ruskin’s work—and his response to theirs—this book complicates and challenges assumptions about Ruskin’s supposedly troubled relationship with women.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 960 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History, Modern
ISBN : STANFORD:36105029534109

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Historical Abstracts by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert Latham
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226467023

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Consuming Youth by Robert Latham Pdf

From the novels of Anne Rice to The Lost Boys, from The Terminator to cyberpunk science fiction, vampires and cyborgs have become strikingly visible figures within American popular culture, especially youth culture. In Consuming Youth, Rob Latham explains why, showing how fiction, film, and other media deploy these ambiguous monsters to embody and work through the implications of a capitalist system in which youth both consume and are consumed. Inspired by Marx's use of the cyborg vampire as a metaphor for the objectification of physical labor in the factory, Latham shows how contemporary images of vampires and cyborgs illuminate the contradictory processes of empowerment and exploitation that characterize the youth-consumer system. While the vampire is a voracious consumer driven by a hunger for perpetual youth, the cyborg has incorporated the machineries of consumption into its own flesh. Powerful fusions of technology and desire, these paired images symbolize the forms of labor and leisure that American society has staked out for contemporary youth. A startling look at youth in our time, Consuming Youth will interest anyone concerned with film, television, and popular culture.

Author : Guy Vanthemsche
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521194211

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Belgium and the Congo, 1885-1980 by Guy Vanthemsche Pdf

This book explains how and why Belgium, a small but influential European country, was changed through its colonial activities in the Congo, from the first expeditions in 1880 to the Mobutu regime in the 1980s. Belgian politics, diplomacy, economic activity and culture were influenced by the imperial experience. Belgium and the Congo, 1885-1980 yields a better understanding of the Congo's past and present.

Author : Tim Dayton,Mark W. Van Wienen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108475329

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A History of American Literature and Culture of the First World War by Tim Dayton,Mark W. Van Wienen Pdf

In the years of and around the First World War, American poets, fiction writers, and dramatists came to the forefront of the international movement we call Modernism. At the same time a vast amount of non- and anti-Modernist culture was produced, mostly supporting, but also critical of, the US war effort. A History of American Literature and Culture of the First World War explores this fraught cultural moment, teasing out the multiple and intricate relationships between an insurgent Modernism, a still-powerful traditional culture, and a variety of cultural and social forces that interacted with and influenced them. Including genre studies, focused analyses of important wartime movements and groups, and broad historical assessments of the significance of the war as prosecuted by the United States on the world stage, this book presents original essays defining the state of scholarship on the American culture of the First World War.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Dissertations, Academic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020776667

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Dissertation Abstracts International by Anonim Pdf

Author : Joseph schumpeter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317835660

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Economic Doctrine and Method by Joseph schumpeter Pdf

First published in 2007. Written in 1954, this volume is a study into the history of doctrines and critical reviews, translated from the work of Professor Schumpeter into English from German.

Author : Jürgen Backhaus,Wolfgang Drechsler
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2006-10-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780387329802

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Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) by Jürgen Backhaus,Wolfgang Drechsler Pdf

Friedrich Nietzsche’s influence on the development of modern social sciences has not been well documented. This volume reconsiders some of Nietzsche’s writings on economics and the science of state, pioneering a line of research up to now unavailable in English. The authors intend to provoke conversation and inspire research on the role that this much misunderstood philosopher and cultural critic has played – or should play – in the history of economics.

Author : Azelina Flint,Lauren Hehmeyer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000516487

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The Forgotten Alcott by Azelina Flint,Lauren Hehmeyer Pdf

This collection is the first academic study of the captivating life and career of expatriate artist, writer, and activist, May Alcott Nieriker. Nieriker is known as the sister of Louisa May Alcott and model for "Amy March" in Alcott’s Little Women. As this book reveals, she was much more than "Amy"—she had a more significant impact on the Concord community than her sister and later became part of the creative expat community in Europe. There, she imbued her painting with the abolitionist activism she was exposed to in childhood and pursued an ideal of artistic genius that opposed her sister’s vision of self-sacrifice. Embarking on a career that took her across London, Paris, and Rome, Nieriker won the acclaim of John Ruskin and forged a network of expatriate female painters who changed the face of nineteenth-century art, creating opportunities for women that lasted well into the twentieth century. A "Renaissance woman," Nieriker was a travel writer, teacher, and curator. She is recovered here as a transdisciplinary subject who stands between disciplines, networks, and ideologies—stiving to recognize the dignity of others. Contributors include foundational Alcott scholar Daniel Shealy and Pulitzer Prize winner John Matteson, as well as Curators, Jan Turnquist (Orchard House) and Amanda Burdan (Brandywine River Museum of Art). In this book, readers will become acquainted with a dynamic feminist thinker who transforms our understanding of the place of women artists in the wider cultural and intellectual life of nineteenth-century Britain, France, and the United States.

Author : Christopher Harvie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198227830

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A Floating Commonwealth by Christopher Harvie Pdf

This is a new portrait of society and identity in high industrial Britain, focusing on the sea as connector, not barrier. It argues that the port cities and their hinterlands formed a 'floating commonwealth' whose interaction with one another and with nationalist and imperial politics created an intense political and cultural synergy.

Author : Daniel Bell
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1996-10-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0465014992

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The Cultural Contradictions Of Capitalism by Daniel Bell Pdf

With a new afterword by the author, this classic analysis of Western liberal capitalist society contends that capitalism—and the culture it creates—harbors the seeds of its own downfall by creating a need among successful people for personal gratification—a need that corrodes the work ethic that led to their success in the first place. With the end of the Cold War and the emergence of a new world order, this provocative manifesto is more relevant than ever.

Author : Jane Ford,Kim Edwards Keates,Patricia Pulham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317576587

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Economies of Desire at the Victorian Fin de Siècle by Jane Ford,Kim Edwards Keates,Patricia Pulham Pdf

This volume marks the first sustained study to interrogate how and why issues of sexuality, desire, and economic processes intersect in the literature and culture of the Victorian fin de siècle. At the end of the nineteenth-century, the move towards new models of economic thought marked the transition from a marketplace centred around the fulfilment of ‘needs’ to one ministering to anything that might, potentially, be desired. This collection considers how the literature of the period meditates on the interaction between economy and desire, doing so with particular reference to the themes of fetishism, homoeroticism, the literary marketplace, social hierarchy, and consumer culture. Drawing on theoretical and conceptual approaches including queer theory, feminist theory, and gift theory, contributors offer original analyses of work by canonical and lesser-known writers, including Oscar Wilde, A.E. Housman, Baron Corvo, Vernon Lee, Michael Field, and Lucas Malet. The collection builds on recent critical developments in fin-de-siècle literature (including major interventions in the areas of Decadence, sexuality, and gender studies) and asks, for instance, how did late nineteenth-century writing schematise the libidinal and somatic dimensions of economic exchange? How might we define the relationship between eroticism and the formal economies of literary production/performance? And what relation exists between advertising/consumer culture and (dissident) sexuality in fin-de-siecle literary discourses? This book marks an important contribution to 19th-Century and Victorian literary studies, and enhances the field of fin-de-siècle studies more generally.

Author : T. R. Young,Bruce Arrigo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1482 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000315905

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The Dictionary Of Critical Social Sciences by T. R. Young,Bruce Arrigo Pdf

This book is a teaching dictionary with the goal of de-mystifying current social science theory in a comprehensive, accessible format. It focuses on important terminology in progressive, radical, critical Marxist, feminist, left-liberal, postmodern, and semiotic contexts.