附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-226) and index.
A historian in the literary marketplace : T.B. Macaulay, the English Constitution, and finance capitalism -- Gentility, capitalism, and mapping the nation in Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford -- The middle class and the novel in W.M. Thackeray's The Newcomes -- Banking on sentiments : a melodramatic civil society in Little Dorrit and A tale of two cities.
摘要:Focusing on a group of mid-Victorian narratives by major middle-class writers, this book illustrates the centrality of finance capitalism to the social imagination of the middle-class when the first mass market for the novel was consolidated.
