Culture and Money in the Nineteenth Century

Daniel Bivona is the author of Desire and Contradiction: Imperial Visions and Domestic Debates in Victorian Literature, British Imperial Literature, 1870 to 1940: Writing and the Administration of Empire, and (with Roger B. Henkle) The Imagination of Class: Masculinity and the Victorian Urban Poor. He teaches at Arizona State University. Marlene Tromp is the author of Altered States: Sex, Nation, Drugs, and Self-Transformation in Victorian Spiritualism and The Private Rod: Marital Violence, Sensation, and the Law in Victorian Britain as well as an editor or contributor to other volumes. She is president of the North American Victorian Studies Association and teaches at Arizona State University.

"Highlighting the centrality of economic thought to nineteenth-century culture, this intriguing volume expands our sense of what constituted the 'economic.' Its global reach and smart, wide-ranging essays make Culture and Money valuable reading." "Through original treatment of a wide range of topics, from art galleries to wills and from the textile industry to the representation of beggars, Culture and Money in the Nineteenth Century showcases the impressive breadth and scope of economic thinking in the period." "These essays give some intriguing insights into ... a fruitful, revealing and ever relevant field of interdisciplinary study." (The Times Literary Supplement) "This is an enormously useful book....[It] offers us a valuable framework for thinking about the process of abstraction by which money and the economy became naturalized and universalized in the nineteenth century. And if its nature as an edited collection sometimes gives it a centrifugal feel, the historically-situated case studies that are the subject of the individual essays give us a sense of the nuances within which that process occurred. This is a book, in short, which poses more questions than it offers answers to, but that, I suspect, is very much what the editors wanted to achieve." (Australasian Review of Victorian Studies)