Literature, Money and the Market From Trollope to Amis [Hardcover]

Literature, Money and the Market: From Trollope to Amis, argues that literary institutions have been saturated with hostility to commerce and the market that goes back to Plato. It traces the division in English culture between the prestige values of the aristocracy and the material values of the commercial class. The book is a fresh look at both the representation of money in English literature, and the economic situation of writers.Acknowledgements Introduction: The Peculiarities of the English PART I: REPRESENTING MONEY Who's Who: Land, Money and Identity in Trollope The Market for Women Money, Marriage, and the Writer's Life: Gassing and Wolf Conrad and the Economics of Imperialism: Heart of Darkness Nostromo : Economism and its Discontents PART II: THE AUTHOR'S SHARE The New Literary Marketplace, 1870-1914 Rentier Culture Paying for Modernism T.S. Eliot's Personal Finances, 1915-1929 The Way We Write Now Notes Works Cited IndexPAUL DELANY is Chair of the Department of English at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada.