Romances of free trade : British literature, laissez-faire, and the global nineteenth century / Ayse Celikkol.

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.

Economics and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Economics and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (200 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

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.

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 Bronte's free traders

The compression of space in Charles Dickens's Little Dorrit

Epilogue: cycles of capitalist expansion.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-987762-9

1-283-42360-X

9786613423603

OCLC:

922970561