Fiction, Famine, and the Rise of Economics in Victorian Britain and Ireland (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521035538)

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.

Author: Gordon Bigelow
ISBN-10: 0521035538
ISBN-13: 9780521035538
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/30/2007
Pages: 244
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d