{"id":1025,"date":"2012-03-29T14:37:09","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T13:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/charisma.local\/charisma2023\/char1smaSSL\/?post_type=histories&p=1025"},"modified":"2025-09-27T23:46:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T22:46:03","slug":"cfp-muck-and-brass-money-and-finance-in-victorian-britain-nov-2012","status":"publish","type":"histories","link":"https:\/\/www.journalofculturaleconomy.org\/charisma\/histories\/cfp-muck-and-brass-money-and-finance-in-victorian-britain-nov-2012","title":{"rendered":"CFP: Muck and Brass: Money and Finance in Victorian Britain, Nov 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0One Day Colloquium on 10 November 2012<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>A collaborative event, sponsored by the British Association for Victorian Studies & the Social History Society, & hosted by the Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/em><\/strong>Keynote Speakers: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Professor Ranald Michie (University of Durham) & Professor Janette Rutterford<\/p>\n

Call for Papers<\/em><\/p>\n

We welcome offers of papers from social, cultural and economic historians and literary scholars on any of the following themes, or indeed any other aspects of Victorian finance, commercialism, economic activity, materialism, and money:<\/p>\n

–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 the economic, commercial, and financial history of Victorian Britain<\/p>\n

–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 the literature and philosophy of political economy: arguments, texts, ethics<\/p>\n

–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 exploration of economic themes in fiction, poetry, and drama: bankruptcy and bankers, financial fraudsters, credit and character<\/p>\n

–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 representations of money, markets, and materialism in paintings and other visual forms<\/p>\n

–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 the architectural forms, physical spaces, and material cultures of financial, commercial and economic activities<\/p>\n

–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 the circulation of money: local and global exchange, credit, investment and inheritance<\/p>\n

–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 critiques and attacks on Victorian financial and commercial practices and materialism<\/p>\n

–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 the social impacts of Victorian economic activity in terms of \u00a0for example, class, gender, credit, consumerism<\/p>\n

–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 economics and emotion, desire and speculation<\/p>\n

–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 markets metaphors, and ways of describing finance and economics<\/p>\n

– \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 the experience of teaching the history, culture, and literature of Victorian economics, commerce and finance\u00a0within the HE sector<\/p>\n

Please send a brief abstract of 250-300 words to Dr Donna Loftus (d.loftus@open.ac.uk<\/a>) and Dr Rosemary Mitchell (r.mitchell@leedstrinity.ac.uk<\/a>) by 1 July 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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