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Personal Business: Character and Commerce in Victorian Literature and Culture (Victorian Literature and Culture Series)
Aeron Hunt
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Description for Personal Business: Character and Commerce in Victorian Literature and Culture (Victorian Literature and Culture Series)
Hardcover. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 458.
In recent years the analysis of the intersection of literature and economics has generated a vibrant conversation in literary and cultural studies of the Victorian period. But Aeron Hunt argues that an emphasis on abstraction and impersonality as the crucial features of the Victorian economic experience has led to a partial and ultimately misleading vision of Victorian business culture. In contrast, she asserts that the key to understanding the relationship of literary writing to economic experience is what she calls “personal business” - the social and interpersonal relationships of Victorian commercial life in which character was a central mediating concept.
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In recent years the analysis of the intersection of literature and economics has generated a vibrant conversation in literary and cultural studies of the Victorian period. But Aeron Hunt argues that an emphasis on abstraction and impersonality as the crucial features of the Victorian economic experience has led to a partial and ultimately misleading vision of Victorian business culture. In contrast, she asserts that the key to understanding the relationship of literary writing to economic experience is what she calls “personal business” - the social and interpersonal relationships of Victorian commercial life in which character was a central mediating concept.
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Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Series
Victorian Literature and Culture Series
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813936314
SKU
V9780813936314
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About Aeron Hunt
Aeron Hunt is Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Brown University, USA.
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