The Hell of the English: Bankruptcy and the Victorian NovelThis book identifies and traces bankruptcy as an archetypal experience of the Victorian age and as a major metaphor in the language, imagery, and structure of the Victorian novel. With reference to selected works by Eliot, Bronte, Gaskell, Dickens, and Thackeray, it presents the range of symbolic meanings of the bankruptcy metaphor. |
Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
The Reality of Bankruptcy | 23 |
The Specter of Bankruptcy in Popular Art | 48 |
Copyright | |
9 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
appears bank bankrupt Bankruptcy Court bankruptcy law Brontė capitalism Carbury Carlyle characters Charles Dickens Charlotte Brontė Christian clearly Clennam Colonel Newcome corruption Court of Bankruptcy creditors debts Dickens Dickens's Dombey Dombey and Son Dombey's downfall drama economic edited Edward Jenks Eliot Elizabeth Gaskell England English enterprise failure father fiction Floss fortune Fraser's Magazine Gaskell hearth hero heroine Ibid industrial J. O. Bailey John limited liability Little Dorrit Live London Lord loss Maggie Melmotte Melmotte's melodrama mercantile Merdle Merdle's metaphor Middlemarch Mill modern moral nineteenth century North and South Oxford University Press painting Parl Parliament portrayed railway reality relationships ruin ruptcy Sadleir Samuel Smiles seems sexual Shirley social society speculation spiritual swindler Thackeray Thackeray's theme Thomas Carlyle Thornton tion Tono-Bungay Trollope Trollope's Tulliver Tulliver's Vanity Fair Victorian era Victorian novel Victorian novelist Victorian period wealth WWLN