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*Victorian Studies* seeks essays for a special issue on Victorian
investments. Possible topics include but are not limited to:
investment and imperial expansion; foreign loans and foreign policy;
the geography of investment (e.g., the City of London as financial
center; the importance of American and European markets; investment
and the notion of the provincial; transnational studies and
investment); speculation, including the moral rhetoric surrounding
it; forms of investment (joint-stock companies, Consolidated Funds,
etc.); conceptions of risk; the financing of technological innovation
(railways, canals, submarine telegraph cables); the impact of the
stockmarket and the culture of investment on gender, and on histories
of sexuality and race; bubbles; the advent of financiers, investment
bankers, and investment magazines; and case studies of individual
investors and companies. This special issue will provide a forum for
discussion of concerns that have become pressing, particularly in the
fields of social and economic history, as well as literary and
post-colonial studies, and which might include reflections on how
changing attitudes to investment in our own time are shaping the
questions we ask about the Victorian culture of investment. Deadline
for submissions: 1 January 2002. Direct queries or electronic
submissions to one of the guest editors: Nancy Henry
(nancyh@binghamton.edu), Anjali Arondekar (aarondek@cats.ucsc.edu),
or Cannon Schmitt (cschmitt@duke.edu). Send hard copy submissions to
Cannon Schmitt, Dept. of English, Box 90015, Duke University, Durham
NC 27708-0015.
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