Fiction, Famine, and the Rise of Economics in Victorian Britain and IrelandCambridge University Press, 2003 M11 20 - 229 páginas 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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... New Orleans Review, and Research in African Literatures, and in the volume Reclaiming Gender: Transgressive Identities in Modern Ireland (1999). CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN NINETEENTH - CENTURY LITERATURE AND CULTURE General Half-title.
... New Orleans Review, and Research in African Literatures, and in the volume Reclaiming Gender: Transgressive Identities in Modern Ireland (1999). CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN NINETEENTH - CENTURY LITERATURE AND CULTURE General Half-title.
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... culture have been rich fields for interdisciplinary studies . Since the turn of the twentieth century , scholars and critics have tracked the in- tersections and tensions between Victorian literature and the visual arts , politics ...
... culture have been rich fields for interdisciplinary studies . Since the turn of the twentieth century , scholars and critics have tracked the in- tersections and tensions between Victorian literature and the visual arts , politics ...
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... Cultural Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz fostered the work of several research clusters and ... culture. Parts of chapters 1 and 2 appeared in the New Orleans Review (1998), and I thank the journal for use of ...
... Cultural Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz fostered the work of several research clusters and ... culture. Parts of chapters 1 and 2 appeared in the New Orleans Review (1998), and I thank the journal for use of ...
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... cultural and philosophical preconditions of the discipline's difficult birth. The nineteenth century witnessed the failure of one set of economic concepts, known today as classical political economy, and the birth of a new one, now ...
... cultural and philosophical preconditions of the discipline's difficult birth. The nineteenth century witnessed the failure of one set of economic concepts, known today as classical political economy, and the birth of a new one, now ...
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... cultural movement we now call romanticism. The English writers of the romantic period, as currently understood in literary history, are a somewhat disparate group, from Blake to Keats, writing from roughly 1790 to 1820. But the ...
... cultural movement we now call romanticism. The English writers of the romantic period, as currently understood in literary history, are a somewhat disparate group, from Blake to Keats, writing from roughly 1790 to 1820. But the ...
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Fiction, Famine, and the Rise of Economics in Victorian Britain and Ireland Gordon Bigelow Vista previa limitada - 2003 |
Fiction, Famine, and the Rise of Economics in Victorian Britain and Ireland Gordon Bigelow Sin vista previa disponible - 2003 |
Fiction, Famine, and the Rise of Economics in Victorian Britain and Ireland Gordon Bigelow Sin vista previa disponible - 2003 |
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