Romances of free trade : British literature, laissez-faire, and the global nineteenth century / [electronic resource]
by �Celikkol, Ay�se.
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BookPublisher: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011Description: 1 online resource (x, 189 p.).ISBN: 9780199896943 (ebook) :.Subject(s): 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 centuryOnline resources: Oxford scholarship online 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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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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