Contents
Introduction: Finance, Capital, CultureNancy Henry and Cannon Schmitt
Part 1. A Prehistory of Victorian Investment
1. "Signum Rememorativum, Demonstrativum, Prognostikon": Finance Capital, the Atlantic, and SlaveryIan Baucom
Part 2. Cultures of Investment
2. Writing about Finance in Victorian England: Disclosure and Secrecy in the Culture of InvestmentMary Poovey
3. The First Fund Managers: Life Insurance Bonuses in Victorian BritainTimothy Alborn
4. Limited Liability, Market Democracy, and the Social Organization of Production in Mid-Nineteenth-Century BritainDonna Loftus
5. Fair Enterprise or Extravagant Speculation: Investment, Speculation, and Gambling in Victorian EnglandDavid C. Itzkowitz
6. Ladies of the Ticker: Women, Investment, and Fraud in England and America, 1850–1930George Robb
Part 3. Fictions of Investment
7. Trollope in the Stock Market: Irrational Exuberance and The Prime MinisterAudrey Jaffe
8. "Rushing into Eternity": Suicide and Finance in Victorian FictionNancy Henry
9. Rumor, Shares, and Novelistic Form: Joseph Conrad's NostromoCannon Schmitt
AfterwordMartin Daunton
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index
