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“Money”

Papers from the IX BCLA International Conference

University of Wales Swansea, 23-26 July 2001

New Comparison Number 35-36 (Spring-Autumn 2003)

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CONTENTS

  • Editorial, An End, and a Beginning
  • Andrea Varney, Linguistic Currency: The Commodification of Language in Early French-English Dictionaries and Bilingual Manuals
  • David Margolies, From Social Bond to Contract: Debt in Rabelais and Shakespeare
  • Eric Spencer, A Commodity of Good Names: Rhetoric, Debt and Charisma in 1 Henry IV
  • Nancy Rosenfeld “Money, by Hatfulls and Pocketfulls”: Mr. Badman Goes into Business
  • Duncan Large, Derived Lives, Received Opinions: Parodic Plagiarism in Sterne and Hoffmann
  • Silvana Colella, The Currency Romance: Implicit Credit in Burney’s The Wanderer
  • Karen Seago, What’s in a Title? A Bibliographical Study of the Marketing of Grimms’ Fairy Tales in English Translation in the Nineteenth Century
  • Janine Dove-Rumé, Body, Text and Currency in Henry David Thoreau’s Walden
  • Efraim Sicher, A Waste of Money? Recycling and the Economy of Our Mutual Friend
  • Alison Halsall, “Take My Blood, Not My Money!”: Vampires, Capital and Class
  • Paul Barnaby, Nana in Milan: Cletto Arrighi and the Italian Reception of Zola
  • Margot Versteeg, Penurious Snobs and Penniless Hacks: Money as a Structuring Device in Late Nineteenth-Century Spanish Restoration Satire
  • Rainer Emig, Treasure Hunts: Between Decadence and Morality
  • Glyn Hambrook, Legal Tender, L’égale tendre: Poet-Prostitute Transactions in Fin-de-Siècle European Poetry
  • Deborah Holmes, Commerce in the Early Works of Thomas Mann and the Novels of Italo Svevo
  • Robin MacKenzie, Art for Art’s Sake? Literature and Exchange in À la recherche du temps perdu
  • Roger Simmonds, Freedom under Capital: The Ideal of the Artist/Critic and the Laws of the Market
  • Catherine Hoffmann, Financial Matters, Motifs and Metaphors in William Gerhardie’s Early Works
  • James Raeside, The Money-Go-Round: Twentieth-Century Picaresque in Priestley’s The Good Companions and Ibuse’s The Bill-Collecting Trip
  • Angela Kimyongür, Victims, Rebels and Heroines: Capitalism and the Figure of the Prostitute in the Novels of Louis Aragon
  • Graham Townsend, What Happened to the Stolen Bank Notes? Ionesco’s Treatment of the Theme of Money in his Adaptation of a Graham Greene Political Thriller
  • Christopher Jones, The Root of All Evil in Agatha Christie and Sabine Deitmer
  • Simon Fellows, When Inheritance Taxes: The Heritage Complex in Thomas Bernhard’s Auslöschung and Juan Goytisolo’s Señas de identidad
  • Michela Canepari-Labib, Money, Sex and Language: The Concept of Exchange in J. M. Coetzee’s In the Heart of the Country
  • Marie-Luise Kohlke, “Seller and Commodity in One, A Whore is Her Own Investment in the World”: The Female Body as Capital and Currency in Angela Carter’s Short Stories Black Venus and The Loves of Lady Purple

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