Buying Brains: Trollope, Oliphant, and Vulgar Victorian Commerce

摘要: G rant Allen's 1894 description of the shift from "the old asceticism [which] said, 'Be virtuous, and you will be happy' [to] new hedonism says, happy virtuous"' (377) applies to large-scale economic movements nineteenth century. During era preceding expansion credit economy, capital was hard come by; in order expand businesses, entrepreneurs had save, borrow relatives friends who also saved, or both save borrow. "In these circumstances abstinence became a buttress industrial because what not spent on personal account stayed business. Personal is one qualities most universally attributed entrepreneurs" (Mathias 143). With centralization banking industry 1860s 70s, commerce no longer based saving but ability amass credit, which led development "plutocracy big business men great landowners [...] virile, ascetic radical ideal active submerged [... .] supine, hedonistic conservative passive property" (Perkin, Origins 436). These changes were associated with emergence, early 1870s, marginalist economics, negotiated Regenia Gagnier calls "paradigm shift" (137), when it turned critical attention production, habits it, consumption, expenditure it. I examine here pair interconnected novels by Anthony Trollope Margaret Oliphant, authors noted for their explicitness dealing money money-making. Published 1867 1876 respectively, The Last Chronicle Barset Phoebe Junior: A Carlingford bracket moment