The Affective Life of the Average Man: The Victorian Novel and the Stock-Market Graph Volume 31

by Audrey Jaffe

1What do the Victorian novel and the stock-market graph have in common? In The Affective Life of the Average Man: The Victorian Novel and the Stock-Market Graph, Audrey Jaffe explores the influence on modern subjectivity of an economic and emotional discourse constructed by both the Victorian novel and the stock market. The book shows how the novel and the market define character as fundamentally vicarious, and how the graphs, tickers, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814251714
• ISBN13: 9780814251713
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"