The Vulgar Question of Money - Heiresses, Materialism, and the Novel of Manners from Jane Austen to Henry James - Paperback - 2013

Explains what this common marriage plot reveals about changing reactions to money in British culture. This book explores how novelists of period captured with particular vividness Englands ambivalent emotional responses to its own financial successes and engaged questions identical to those raised by political economists and moral philosophers.
Year of publication: 2013
Pagination: 320 pages, black white illustrations
Format: Paperback