The Vulgar Question of Money: Heiresses, Materialism, and the Novel of Manners from Jane Austen to Henry James

by Elsie B. Michie

Book Overview

It is a familiar story line in nineteenth-century English novels: a hero must choose between money and love, between the wealthy, materialistic, status-conscious woman who could enhance his social position and the poorer, altruistic, independent-minded woman whom he loves. Elsie B. Michie explains what this common marriage plot reveals about changing reactions to money in British culture. It was in the novel that writers found space to articulate...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 142140186X
• ISBN13: 9781421401867
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.0"