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CALL FOR PAPERS 
 
Victorians Institute 1996 
University of Virginia 
18-19 October 1996 
 
WHEN MONEY TALKED (AND HOW): VICTORIAN NEGOTIATIONS 
 
Proposals are invited for conference papers on money in Victorian history, 
literature, and culture: its substance and theory, omnipresence and 
invisibility, glamour and filth.  Our featured speaker will be 
Christopher Herbert of Northwestern University. 
 
Panels will be arranged upon acceptance of papers, but a list of likely 
themes 
includes 
-Living off the interest: capital growth and the Victorian plot 
-The many faces of money: numismatics, forgery, the sovereign and the note 
-Getting and spending: the economics of eros 
-Speculative bonds: stock-taking, stake-holding, responsibility & the cash 
nexus 
-Poetry appreciation: the rare-book as gift, commodity, and investment 
-Pricelessness: fungible solvency versus absolute value 
-Hard cash, soft money, and the strength of representations 
-Credit/credo, debt/doubt, and the circulation of trust 
-Coinage and neologism: the minting of Victorian English 
-Home economics: from pin money to household accounts 
-Monetary science: the gold standard on and off 
-Miser, blackmailer, bankrupt; embezzler, beggar, thief: pathologies of 
money 
 
Proposals on additional topics will be welcome, especially if they bring 
what 
might otherwise be a broadly *economic* issue into specifically *monetary* 
focus.  The Victorians Institute is one of the best membership bargains in 
academia; nevertheless, conference participation and registration are open 
not 
just to card-carrying members but to all who take an interest in the 
subject. 
 
Proposals: 1-2 pages 
Presentations: 15-20 minutes 
Deadline for proposals: 15 May 1996 
Address:        Herbert Tucker 
                Department of English 
                Bryan Hall 219 
                University of Virginia 
                Charlottesville VA 22903 
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