| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 229 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| 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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-223) and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865 -- Knowledge and learning -- Economics.
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Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865. |
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Economics. |
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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Knowledge and learning -- Economics.
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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. |
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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Bleak House.
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Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865. |
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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. |
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Famine in Ireland (Ireland : 1845-1852) |
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Bleak House (Dickens, Charles) |
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English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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English fiction. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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Economics in literature.
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Economics in literature. |
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Ireland -- History -- Famine, 1845-1852 -- Historiography.
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Economics -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
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1800 - 1899 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bigelow, Gordon, 1963- Fiction, famine, and the rise of economics in Victorian Britain and Ireland. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003 0521828481 (DLC) 2003048558 (OCoLC)52086538 |
| ISBN |
0511062818 (electronic book) |
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9780511062810 (electronic book) |
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0511121539 (electronic book) |
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9780511121531 (electronic book) |
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0511071272 |
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9780511071270 |
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9780511484728 (ebook) |
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0511484720 (ebook) |
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9780521828482 (hardback) |
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0521828481 (hardback) |
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1280161523 |
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9781280161520 |
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0521828481 (Cloth) |
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