Victorian Investments: New Perspectives on Finance and Culture

Contents
Introduction: Finance, Capital, Culture Nancy Henry and Cannon Schmitt
Part 1. A Prehistory of Victorian Investment
1. "Signum Rememorativum, Demonstrativum, Prognostikon": Finance Capital, the Atlantic, and Slavery Ian Baucom
Part 2. Cultures of Investment
2. Writing about Finance in Victorian England: Disclosure and Secrecy in the Culture of Investment Mary Poovey
3. The First Fund Managers: Life Insurance Bonuses in Victorian Britain Timothy Alborn
4. Limited Liability, Market Democracy, and the Social Organization of Production in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Britain Donna Loftus
5. Fair Enterprise or Extravagant Speculation: Investment, Speculation, and Gambling in Victorian England David C. Itzkowitz
6. Ladies of the Ticker: Women, Investment, and Fraud in England and America, 1850-1930 George Robb
Part 3. Fictions of Investment
7. Trollope in the Stock Market: Irrational Exuberance and The Prime Minister Audrey Jaffe
8. "Rushing into Eternity": Suicide and Finance in Victorian Fiction Nancy Henry
9. Rumor, Shares, and Novelistic Form: Joseph Conrad's Nostromo Cannon Schmitt
Afterword Martin Daunton
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index

Nancy Henry is Professor of English at the University of Tennessee. She is author of George Eliot and the British Empire and The Cambridge Introduction to George Eliot, and is co-editor of a 2002 special issue of Victorian Studies.
Cannon Schmitt is Associate Professor of English at the University of Toronto. He is author of Alien Nation: Nineteenth-Century Gothic Fictions and English Nationality.

"Serious, ample, and provocative, the essays are an important addition tothe literature of nineteenth-century finance and offer constructive consideration ofa fundamental feature of the practice and myths of capitalism as we continue to livewith and in them." -- Victorian Studies, Vol. 52, No. 1