Real Money and Romanticism

Matthew Rowlinson

ISBN 10: 0521193796 / ISBN 13: 9780521193795

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2010

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Real Money and Romanticism interprets poetry and fiction by Sir Walter Scott, John Keats, and Charles Dickens in the context of changes in the British monetary system and in the broader economy during the early nineteenth century. In this period modern systems of paper money and intellectual property became established; Matthew Rowlinson describes the consequent changes in relations between writers and publishers and shows how a new conception of material artefacts as the bearers of abstract value shaped Romantic conceptions of character, material culture, and labor. A fresh and radically different contribution to the growing field of inquiry into the 'economics' of literature, this is an ingenious and challenging reading of Romantic discourse from the point of view of monetary theory and history.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Real Money and Romanticism
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521193796
• ISBN 13: 9780521193795
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 235W x 157H x 19D millimeters 235 millimeters width by 157 millimeters height by 19 millimeters depth
• Weight: 543 grams

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Synopsis

Real Money and Romanticism interprets poetry and fiction by Sir Walter Scott, John Keats, and Charles Dickens in the context of changes in the British monetary system and in the broader economy during the early nineteenth century. In this period modern systems of paper money and intellectual property became established; Matthew Rowlinson describes the consequent changes in relations between writers and publishers and shows how a new conception of material artifacts as the bearers of abstract value shaped Romantic conceptions of character, material culture, and labor. A fresh and radically different contribution to the growing field of inquiry into the ‘economics' of literature, this is an ingenious and challenging reading of Romantic discourse from the point of view of monetary theory and history.

About the Author

Matthew Rowlinson is an Associate Professor at the University of Western Ontario, where he teaches in the Department of English and at the Centre for Theory and Criticism.