Fiction, famine, and the rise of economics in Victorian Britain and Ireland
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 ind...
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Formato: | Libro electrónico |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press
2003.
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Colección: | CUP ebooks.
Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 40. |
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Sumario: | 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. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 recurso electrónico |
Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
Bibliografía: | Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. 212-223) e índice. |
ISBN: | 9780511062810 9780511121531 9780511071270 9780511484728 9780521828482 9781280161520 |