Table of Contents

List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1. Banking on panic: the historical record and a theoretical frame; 2. Gothic economies in Bagehot, Marx and Lord Overstone; 3. The ghost and the accountant: investing in panic in Villette; 4. 'The whole duty of man': circulating circulation in Dickens's Little Dorrit; 5. 'Bankruptcy at my heels': Dr Jekyll, Mr Hyde and the bankerization of identity; 6. Bankerization panic and the corporate personality in Dracula; Notes; Index.

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Houston reveals that the worlds of Victorian economics and Gothic fiction, seemingly separate, actually complemented and enriched each other.

About the Author

Gail Turley Houston is Associate Professor of English at the University of New Mexico.

Reviews

"Houston's assessment of the connections between economic and literary discourse is a welcome addition to current work in this burgeoning area of research...the real strength of From Dickens to Dracula is that it provides a fresh perspective through its consideration of how financial panic is figured in nineteenth-century fiction, and is thus a valuable addition to scholarship in this field." Dickens Quarterly Gill Ballinger, University of the West England