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Houston, Gail Turley.
From Dickens to Dracula: Gothic, Economics, and Victorian Fiction.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge;
Date of Publication: 2005
Stock Code: 11430
FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. xv, [1], 165, [1]. [4] catalogue. Publishers’ black cloth with gilt titles to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Corners and spine tips lightly bruised, and front pastedown a little marked otherwise clean and bright, with no annotation or inscriptions. A hint of creasing to rear of jacket. A near fine copy in like jacket. An examination of the ways in which” 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 demonstrates that “..the worlds of Victorian economics and Gothic fiction, though seemingly separate, actually complemented and enriched each other.” (from jacket front flap). £28.00