{"id":5109,"date":"2018-10-03T05:00:57","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T05:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/?p=5109"},"modified":"2018-10-03T22:29:21","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T22:29:21","slug":"nancy-henry-women-literature-and-finance-in-victorian-britain-cultures-of-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/2018\/10\/03\/nancy-henry-women-literature-and-finance-in-victorian-britain-cultures-of-investment\/","title":{"rendered":"Nancy Henry, <em>Women, Literature and Finance in Victorian Britain: Cultures of Investment<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5117\" src=\"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/women-literature-and-finance-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"110\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/women-literature-and-finance-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/women-literature-and-finance.jpg 315w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 110px) 100vw, 110px\" \/>Women, Literature and Finance in Victorian Britain<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Cultures of Investment<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nancy Henry<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Women, Literature and Finance in Victorian Britain: Cultures of Investment<\/em> defines the cultures that emerged in response to the democratization of the stock market in nineteenth-century Britain when investing provided access to financial independence for women. Victorian novels represent those economic networks in realistic detail and are preoccupied with the intertwined economic and affective lives of characters. Analyzing evidence about the lives of real investors together with fictional examples, including case studies of four authors who were also investors, Nancy Henry argues that investing was not just something women did in Victorian Britain; it was a distinctly modern way of thinking about independence, risk, global communities and the future in general.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nancy Henry<\/strong> is the Nancy Goslee Professor of English at the University of Tennessee. She is the author of <em>George Eliot and the British Empire<\/em> (2002), <em>The Cambridge Introduction to George Eliot<\/em> (2008) and <em>The Life of George Eliot<\/em> (2012) and co-editor of <em>Victorian Investments: New Perspectives on Finance and Literature<\/em> (2009).<\/p>\n<p>Order Online at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/us\/book\/9783319943305\">https:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women, Literature and Finance in Victorian Britain Cultures of Investment Nancy Henry Women, Literature and Finance in Victorian Britain: Cultures of Investment defines the cultures that emerged in response to the democratization of the stock market in nineteenth-century Britain when investing provided access to financial independence for women. Victorian novels represent those economic networks in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5272,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[497],"tags":[1627,896,1867,1866],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5272"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5116,"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5109\/revisions\/5116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}