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Romances of free trade : British literature, laissez-faire, and the global nineteenth century / Ayşe Çelikkol.
LIBRA PR468.F74 C45 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Çelikkol, Ayşe.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Free trade in literature.
- Capitalism in literature.
- Economics in literature.
- Globalization in literature.
- Sovereignty in literature.
- Authors, English--19th century--Political and social views.
- Authors, English.
- Political and social views.
- Economics and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Economics and literature.
- History.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- x, 189 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, [2011]
- Contents:
- Introduction: narrating global capitalism in the romance mode
- Walter Scott's disloyal smugglers
- Meandering merchants and narrators in Captain Marryat's nautical fiction
- Harriet Martineau on the fertility of exchange
- Promiscuity, commerce, and closure in early Victorian drama
- Mutuality, marriage, and Charlotte Brontë's free traders
- The compression of space in Charles Dickens's Little Dorrit
- Epilogue: cycles of capitalist expansion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199769001
- 0199769001
- OCLC:
- 664519528
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