TY  - GEN
AB  - During 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 artifice-drawing 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."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 nineteenth century's most enduring legacies, reminding us that the current dominant paradigm for understanding financial crisis has a history of its own. She shows how novels illuminate this displacement and ironize ideological metaphors linking psychology and economics, thus demonstrating literature's unique facility for evaluating ideas in process. Inheritors of this novelistic project, Marx and Freud each advance a critique of psychic economy that refuses to naturalize capitalism.
AU  - Kornbluh, Anna,
DO  - 10.1515/9780823254996
DO  - doi
ID  - 1480649
JF  - Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
JF  - Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
KW  - Economics and literature
KW  - Economics and literature; England; History, 19th century.
KW  - Economics
KW  - Economics; England; Psychological aspects.
KW  - English literature
KW  - English literature, 19th century; History and criticism.
KW  - Finance in literature.
KW  - Literary Studies.
KW  - Philosophy & Theory.
KW  - Psychoanalysis.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
KW  - Marx.
KW  - Marxism.
KW  - Psychic Economy.
KW  - Psychoanalysis.
KW  - crisis.
KW  - economics.
KW  - finance.
KW  - freud.
KW  - novel.
KW  - realism.
KW  - theory.
KW  - victorian.
LA  - eng
LA  - In English.
LK  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823254996
N2  - During 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 artifice-drawing 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."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 nineteenth century's most enduring legacies, reminding us that the current dominant paradigm for understanding financial crisis has a history of its own. She shows how novels illuminate this displacement and ironize ideological metaphors linking psychology and economics, thus demonstrating literature's unique facility for evaluating ideas in process. Inheritors of this novelistic project, Marx and Freud each advance a critique of psychic economy that refuses to naturalize capitalism.
SN  - 9780823254996
T1  - Realizing Capital :Financial and Psychic Economies in Victorian Form /
TI  - Realizing Capital :Financial and Psychic Economies in Victorian Form /
UR  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823254996
ER  -