{"product_id":"the-affective-life-of-the-audrey-jaffe-9780814251713","title":"The Affective Life of the Average Man: The Victorian Novel and the Stock-Market Graph Volume 31","description":"1What do the Victorian novel and the stock-market graph have in common? In \u003ci\u003eThe Affective Life of the Average Man: The Victorian Novel and the Stock-Market Graph, \u003c\/i\u003eAudrey Jaffe explores the influence on modern subjectivity of an economic and emotional discourse constructed by both the Victorian novel and the stock market. The book shows how the novel and the market define character as fundamentally vicarious, and how the graphs, tickers, and pulses that represent the stock market function for us, as the novel did for the Victorians, as both representation and source of collective expectations and emotions. A rereading of key Victorian texts, this volume is also a rereading of the relation between Victorian and contemporary culture, describing the way contemporary accounts of such phenomena as frauds, bubbles, and the economics of happiness reproduce Victorian narratives and assumptions about character. Jaffe draws on the work of nineteenth- and twentieth-century economic and political theorists, popular discourse about the stock market, and novelistic representations of emotion and identity to offer new readings of George Eliot's \u003ci\u003eMiddlemarch\u003c\/i\u003e, Anthony Trollope's \u003ci\u003eThe Prime Minister\u003c\/i\u003e, and Charles Dickens's \u003ci\u003eDavid Copperfield\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLittle Dorrit\u003c\/i\u003e. Charting a new understanding of the relation between money, emotions, and identity, \u003ci\u003eThe Affective Life of the Average Man\u003c\/i\u003e makes a significant contribution to Victorian studies, economic criticism, and the study of the history and representation of emotion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Audrey Jaffe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0814251714\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814251713\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/15\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 168\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.50d","brand":"Audrey Jaffe","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44072810643711,"sku":"9780814251713","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a4a61674-00f1-4317-8ecd-847dbd358cbe.jpg?v=1685444065","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-affective-life-of-the-audrey-jaffe-9780814251713","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}