I’ve been reading the posts on Mill on the Floss with great interest. Let’s keep them up!<\/p>\n
We ended last class talking about the relationship between the “love” plot and the “money” plots in the novel. Poovey sees them as quite different strands that compete with each other for the interest of the reader and, possibly, point out some of the ironies in the way readers of “financial journalism” might have encountered a novel that only seems marginally to do with finance and capital–but which actually is. Kreisel, by contrast, sees the two plots as intimately related on the evidence of economic language (she is similar to Miles here) and of parallels between the novels’ major narrative developments and ongoing debates in political economy about social progress, consumption, and economic order. I’m wondering if any of you have a preference for either of these readings? Why or why not?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’ve been reading the posts on Mill on the Floss with great interest. Let’s keep them up! We ended last class talking about the relationship between the “love” plot and the “money” plots in the novel. Poovey sees them as quite different strands that compete with each other for the interest of the reader and, … Continue reading