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

ISBN-13: 9780521035538 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 244 str.

Gordon Bigelow

Opis

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.