SOURCE: "Displaced Persons: The Cost of Speculation in Charles Dickens' Martin Chuzzlewit," in Money: Lure, Lore, and Literature, edited by John Louis DiGaetani, Greenwood Press, 1994, pp. 245-52.
In the following essay, Baubles points out Dickens's concerns with the human cost of financial speculation by analyzing the effect of obsession with financial gain on the characters in Martin Chuzzlewit.
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