Victorian Investments explores the relationship between the financial                  system in Great Britain and other aspects of Victorian society and culture. Building                  on the special journal issue of Victorian Studies devoted to Victorian investments,                  this volume is the first to define an interdisciplinary field of study emerging in                  the space between Marxist critiques of capitalism and traditional histories of                  business and economics. The contributors demonstrate how phenomena such as the                  expansion of colonial and foreign markets, the broadening of the investor base                  through the advent of limited liability, and the rise of financial journalism gave                  rise to a "culture of investment" that affected Victorian Britons at every level of                  society and influenced every kind of cultural production. Drawing together work by                  prominent historians as well as literary and cultural critics, Victorian Investments                  both defines the methodologies and perspectives that characterize an existing body                  of scholarship and pushes that scholarship in new directions, demonstrating the                  signal role of economic developments in Victorian culture and society.

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