Fiction, Famine, and the Rise of Economics in Victorian Britain and Ireland (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)

Type

Book

Authors

Gordon Bigelow

ISBN 10

0521035538

ISBN 13

9780521035538

Tags

Criticism & Theory, Victorian, United States, British & Irish, Writing

Description

During the Irish Famine of 1845-52, novels by Dickens and Gaskell, as well as a range of commentaries on the Irish disaster, argued for a new theory of individual expression in opposition to the systemized approach to economic life that political economy proposed. These romantic views of human subjectivity eventually provided the foundation for a new theory of capitalism based on the desires of the individual consumer. - from Amzon

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