Romances of free trade : British literature, laissez-faire, and the global nineteenth century / [electronic resource] Ay�se �Celikkol. �Celikkol, Ay�se. 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. PR468.F74 820.93553 23 Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on print version record. 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. New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011. 2011. 2011 Text 1 online resource (x, 189 p.) http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199769001.001.0001 eng Great Britain