Romances of free trade : British literature, laissez-faire, and the global nineteenth century /
Drawing on works by Walter Scott, Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, and others, Romances of Free Trade offers a new account of the cultural work of romance in nineteenth-century Britain, arguing that novelists and playwrights employed the genre to represent a radically new historical formation: the emergen...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Drawing on works by Walter Scott, Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, and others, Romances of Free Trade offers a new account of the cultural work of romance in nineteenth-century Britain, arguing that novelists and playwrights employed the genre to represent a radically new historical formation: the emergence of the global free-market economy. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 189 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-183) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199877621 0199877629 0199896941 9780199896943 |