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

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

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Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cultu, Book 40

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0521828481
ISBN13: 9780521828482
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Nov 20 2003
Pages: 244
Weight: 1.30
Height: 0.73 Width: 6.32 Depth: 9.26
Language: English
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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