Download or read book Literature, Money and the Market written by P. Delany and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literature, Money and the Market: From Trollope to Amis, argues that literary institutions have been saturated with hostility to commerce and the market that goes back to Plato. It traces the division in English culture between the prestige values of the aristocracy and the material values of the commercial class. The book is a fresh look at both the representation of money in English literature, and the economic situation of writers.