Culture, Capital and Representation

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These 3 locations in All: Australian National University Library. Open to the public. The University of Melbourne Library. This single location in Australian Capital Territory: Attention paid to the dead makes very evident the factor of time involved in payment in general, as almost no exchange is instantaneous.

European Capital of Culture

Nor does it provide instant gratification. Where there is working, producing, bringing to market, money, credit, a contract, there is temporal displacement—an interval of deferred benefit between incurring expense or giving away and getting back again. But in the case of such stark temporal displacement as divides the living and the dead, the parties to exchange will not remain the same; payers and payees of attention will also be displaced.

With these displacements, what secures the deal?

Different time, new party—the security of exchange is indeed uncertain. This is wonderfully suggestive.

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However, the imponderables of time—deferral, shifting parties, uncertainty—such as capitalism seeks to control for, still remain. Disraeli proposes an extension of the vote that is still property-based, as in the Reform, while also making money in the savings bank or government funds a basis for enfranchisement. An additional proposed basis is membership in certain professions. Neither so romantically conceived nor backward-looking to a golden age, the third reform bill of moved close to universal male suffrage.

There are references to the funds, as well as references to Parliament and elections. Livesey cites a passage that ironically describes Mr. This comes in the portrayal of Bradley Headstone, the lowborn schoolteacher on the rise via the professionalization of teaching in the period. Perhaps Maurice has some relevance here.

Arnold is much more explicit than Dickens in linking this to matters of representative government. Neither she nor other critics sees this probing carried so devastatingly far for the downwardly mobile gentleman Eugene Wrayburn.

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Genre analysis helps her trace the difference in handling of the Headstone and Wrayburn stories. Here popular travel writing is examined, and image studies provides the approach. Images of fever connote the danger of a Panamanian space of excess, jungle, animalism, irrationality, sexual and racial mixing, and degeneration.

At the same time such images attach to American travelers to this space, now connoting the fever of speculation, the gold fever that took them there, and again dangerous excess, natures out of control, irrationality, indiscriminate mixing, and degeneration from civilized norms of economic conduct. It is a strength of the collection that this and other essays extend new economic criticism to encompass empire.

There should be more work along such lines. This looks back to seventeenth-century Ireland, under British rule, and to little-known economic writing by William Petty, penned initially in service of Thomas Cromwell.

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