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Author:

Hunt, Aeron, 1969- author.

Title:

Personal business : character and commerce in Victorian literature and culture / Aeron Hunt.

Publisher:

University of Virginia Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

x, 225 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Economics and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Literature and society--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Finance, Personal--Great Britain--History.
Economics in literature.
Business in literature.
Business in literature.
Economics and literature.
Economics in literature.
English literature.
Finance, Personal.
Literature and society.
Great Britain.
1800 - 1899
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

The trusty agent: problems of confidence in Dickens's family firm -- Routinized charisma and the romance of trade: the story of commercial character, 1850-1885 -- Reading ruin: failure and the forms of character, 1849-1865 -- The heir apparent: gender and the transmission of talent in Margaret Oliphant's Hester.

Series:

Victorian literature and culture series

ISBN:

0813936314 (cloth : acid-free paper)
9780813936314 (cloth : acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)877561942

LCCN:

2014004407

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PMAX975 -- Morningside University - Hickman-Johnson-Furrow Library (Sioux City)