| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 229 pages) |
| Series |
Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 40 |
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Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 40
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 individual consumer |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-223) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865 -- Knowledge -- Economics
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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Knowledge -- Economics
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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Bleak House.
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| SUBJECT |
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 fast |
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Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865 fast |
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Bleak House (Dickens, Charles) fast |
| Subject |
English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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Economics in literature.
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Economics -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Economics
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Economics in literature
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English fiction
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Historiography
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| SUBJECT |
Ireland -- History -- Famine, 1845-1852 -- Historiography
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| Subject |
Great Britain
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Ireland
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0511062818 |
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9780511062810 |
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0511121539 |
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9780511121531 |
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0511071272 |
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9780511071270 |
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9780511484728 |
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0511484720 |
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9780521828482 |
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0521828481 |
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1280161523 |
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9781280161520 |
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9780521035538 |
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0521035538 |
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