| Fiction, Famine, and the Rise of Economics in Victorian Britain and Ireland Contributor(s): Bigelow, Gordon (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521035538 ISBN-13: 9780521035538 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $54.14 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2007 Annotation: 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. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 820.935 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.55" H x 6" W x 9" (0.80 lbs) 244 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
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Contributor Bio(s): Bigelow, Gordon: - 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). |