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The Subject of Money: Late-Victorian Melodrama's Crisis of Masculinity
This article focuses on the relationship between male suffering and economics in two late-Victorian melodramas, Henry Arthur Jones's "The Silver King" and Arthur Wing Pinero's "Sweet Lavender". Both plays express contemporary anxieties about the stability of privileged...
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| subjects | Analysis Bank failures Bank management Business ethics Capitalism Changes Economic value Economics Joint stock companies Male identity Males Masculinity Melodrama Morality Novels Silver Theater Victorians Villains |
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