The novelist and mammon

Description:

This book breaks new ground by identifying and illustrating the realities of Victorian commercial life and examining the ways in which novelists like Dickens, Thackeray, and Trollope portrayed these realities in their fiction. What exactly did Ebenezer Scrooge do for a living? How much did Dickens really know about the Stock Exchange? Why are stockbrokers the villains of so many of these novels? In answering questions like these, The Novelist and Mammon depicts a real world of frauds, villains and rogues as fascinating as any to be found in the fiction of the day.

subjects: Commerce in literature,  English fiction,  History and criticism,  Businessmen in literature,  Economics in literature,  Capitalists and financiers in literature,  Business in literature,  English fiction, history and criticism, 19th century

Times: 19th century