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By Borislav Knezevic

Figures of Finance Capitalism brings into concentration Victorian narratives via significant middle-class writers during which the workings of finance capitalism are prominently featured, and reads this curiosity in finance capitalism within the context of middle-class misgivings a few classification procedure nonetheless ruled by means of a patrician elite. This booklet illustrates the centrality of finance capitalism to the mid-Victorian middle-class social mind's eye via discussing a variety of significant Victorian texts via Dickens, Gaskell, Thackeray and Macaulay. In so doing, it attracts on a number of new views on British heritage, as provided within the paintings of historians similar to Tom Nairn, David Cannadine, and P.J. Cain and A.G. Hopkins. Articulating the elemental coordinates for a brand new sociology of mid-Victorian literature, Borislav Knezevic perspectives texts throughout the prism of the mid-Victorian literary box and its negotiations of the modern box of power.

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