Fiction, famine, and the rise of economics in Victorian Britain and Ireland /
At the time of the Irish Famine, novels by Dickens and Gaskell, and commentaries on the famine, introduced a new theory of individual expression, which gradually replaced the older ideas of political economy, and became the foundation for modern concepts of capitalism based on the desires of the ind...
| Основен автор: | Bigelow, Gordon, 1963- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2003.
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| Серия: |
Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;
40. |
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Fiction, famine, and the rise of economics in Victorian Britain and Ireland. |
Съдържание:
- Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I Origin stories and political economy, 1740-1870; CHAPTER 1 History as abstraction; CHAPTER 2 Value as signification; PART II Producing the consumer; CHAPTER 3 Market indicators: banking and housekeeping in Bleak House; CHAPTER 4 Esoteric solutions: Ireland and the colonial critique of political economy; CHAPTER 5 Toward a social theory of wealth: three novels by Elizabeth Gaskell; Conclusion; Notes; INTRODUCTION; NOTES TO PART I : OPENING; 1. HISTORY AS ABSTRACTION; 2. VALUE AS SIGNIFICATION.