Fiction, Famine, and the Rise of Economics in Victorian Britain and Ireland (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Fiction, Famine, and the Rise of Economics in Victorian Britain and Ireland (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture) Book

Before the emergence of modern economics, political economy was a worldly discipline, of interest to readers of novels, and to novelists. At the time of the Irish Famine of 1845 52, novels by Dickens and Gaskell, and a range of commentaries on the Irish disaster, argued for a new theory of individual expression in opposition to the systemized approach to economic life that political economy proposed. Gradually these romantic views of human subjectivity provided the foundation for a new theory of capitalism based on the desires of the individual consumer.Read More

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    During the Irish Famine of 1845-52, novels by Dickens and Gaskell, as well as a range of commentaries on the Irish disaster, argued for a new theory of individual expression in opposition to the systemized approach to economic life that political economy proposed. These romantic views of human subjectivity eventually provided the foundation for a new theory of capitalism based on the desires of the individual consumer.

  • 0521035538
  • 9780521035538
  • Gordon Bigelow
  • 30 April 2007
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 244
  • 1
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