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We think of economic theory as a scientific speciality accessible only to experts, but Victorian writers commented on economic subjects with great interest. Gor

Revealing how a modern notion of fashion helped to transform the novel and its representation of social change and individual and collective life in nineteenth-

Victorian science changed language from a tool into a natural phenomenon, evolving independently of its speakers. Will Abberley explores how science and fiction

The 'invisible hand', Adam Smith's metaphor for the morality of capitalism, is explored in this text as being far more subtle and intricate than is usually unde

Explores the journalism and fiction appearing in the early Victorian working-class periodical press and its influence on mainstream literature.