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Romances of free trade : British literature, laissez-faire, and the global nineteenth century /

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Main Author: Çelikkol, Ayşe
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2011]
Subjects:
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Free trade in literature.
Capitalism in literature.
Economics in literature.
Globalization in literature.
Sovereignty in literature.
Authors, English > 19th century > Political and social views.
Economics and literature > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Authors, English > Political and social views.
Economics and literature.
English literature.
Great Britain.
Literatur.
Englisch.
Motiv.
Freihandel.
Globalisierung.
Kapitalismus.
1800 - 1899
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Narrating global capitalism in the romance mode
  • Walter Scott's disloyal smugglers
  • Meandering merchants and narrators in Captain Marryat's nautical fiction
  • Harriet Martineau on the fertility of exchange
  • Promiscuity, commerce, and closure in early Victorian drama
  • Mutuality, marriage, and Charlotte Brontë's free traders
  • The compression of space in Charles Dickens's Little Dorrit
  • Epilogue: Cycles of capitalist expansion.