Fiction, Famine, and the Rise of Economics in Victorian Britain and Ireland - Couverture souple

Bigelow, Gordon

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0521035538 ISBN 13 : 9780521035538

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2007

Synopsis

We think of economic theory as a scientific speciality accessible only to experts, but Victorian writers commented on economic subjects with great interest. Gordon Bigelow focuses on novelists Charles Dickens and Elizabeth Gaskell and compares their work with commentaries on the Irish famine (1845–1852). Bigelow argues that at this moment of crisis the rise of economics depended substantially on concepts developed in literature. These works all criticized the systematized approach to economic life that the prevailing political economy proposed. Gradually the romantic views of human subjectivity, described in the novels, provided the foundation for a new theory of capitalism based on the desires of the individual consumer. Bigelow's argument stands out by showing how the discussion of capitalism in these works had significant influence not just on public opinion, but on the rise of economic theory itself.

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À propos de l'auteur

Gordon Bigelow is Assistant Professor of English at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. His work has appeared in the journals ELH and New Orleans Review and in the volume Reclaiming Gender: Transgressive Identities in 19th-century Ireland (1999).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521035538
• ISBN 13: 9780521035538
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 244
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