false 1801448 2 Ranging from the panoramic novels of Dickens to the horror of Dracula, Gail Turley Houston examines the ways in which the language and imagery of economics, commerce and banking are transformed in Victorian Gothic fiction, and traces literary and uncanny elements in economic writings of the period. Houston shows how banking crises were often linked with ghosts or inexplicable non-human forces and financial panic was figured through Gothic or supernatural means. In Little Dorrit and Villette characters are literally haunted by money, while the unnameable intimations of Dracula and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde are represented alongside realist economic concerns. Houston pays particular attention to the term ‘panic’ as it moved between its double uses as a banking term and a defining emotion in sensational and Gothic fiction. This stimulating interdisciplinary book reveals that the worlds of Victorian economics and Gothic fiction, seemingly separate, actually complemented and enriched each other. 1800619 25 7 2005 From Dickens to Dracula: Gothic, Economics, and Victorian Fiction (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture) 0 0 4 0 0 0 false false Sat Aug 08 16:33:48 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 08 17:36:31 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Sep 09 22:39:24 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 09 22:39:26 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Thu Jun 12 13:01:10 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 12 13:01:10 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Thu Aug 30 21:13:25 -0700 2007 Mon Jan 05 14:19:54 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1801448