Metaphors of economic exploitation in literature, 1885-1914 : vampiric enterprise / Jane Ford.

New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.

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Jane Ford is a Senior Lecturer in English Studies at Teesside University, UK. She is a specialist in fin-de-sic̈le literature and culture, particularly women's writing, the Gothic and economic themes and metaphors. She has published essays on a range of nineteenth-century writers, including Mona Caird, Olive Schreiner, Vernon Lee, Lucas Malet and Bertram Mitford. She is co-editor of two collections of essays: Economies of Desire at the Victorian Fin de Sic̈le: Libidinal Lives (Routledge 2016) and Lucas Malet, Dissident Pilgrim: Critical Essays (Routledge 2020).

"Metaphors of Economic Exploitation in Literature, 1885-1914 explores the complex network of metaphors that emerged around late nineteenth-century conceptions of economic self-interest - metaphors that dramatised the predatory, conflictual and exploitative basis of relations between nations, institutions, sexes and people in a fin-de-siècle economy that was perceived by many as outwardly belligerent. More specifically, this book is about the vampire, cannibal and related genera of economic metaphor penetrate the major discourses of the period in ways that have yet to be understood. In chapters that examine socialist fiction and newspapers; the imperial quest romance; the decadent and supernatural tales of Henry James and Vernon Lee; and the Catholic novels of Lucas Malet, Ford assesses the breadth and variety of these metaphors, and considers how they filter the long-standing philosophical ideas about self-interest and the conflictual 'economic man'. This volume is essential reading for students and scholars of fin-de-siecle literature and culture as well as those with an interest in the relationship between literature, economics and anti-capitalist movements"-- Provided by publisher.

Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.

Print version: Ford, Jane, 1983- Metaphors of economic exploitation in literature, 1885-1914. New York, NY : Routledge, 2024

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August 19, 2024

Routledge studies in nineteenth century literature

Includes bibliographical references and index.