Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Abstracting Economics -- Part one: Broad Abstractions -- 1: Born to the Business: Heredity, Ability, and Commercial Character in Late Victorian Britain -- 2: Shifting the Ground of Monetary Politics: The Case of the 1870s -- 3: The Comparative...

"Since the 1980s, scholars have made the case for examining nineteenth-century culture--particularly literary output--through the lens of economics. In Culture and Money in the Nineteenth Century: Abstracting Economics, two luminaries in the field of Victorian studies, Daniel Bivona and Marlene...