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Fiction, famine, and the rise of economics in Victorian Britain and Ireland /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Fiction, famine, and the rise of economics in Victorian Britain and Ireland // Gordon Bigelow.
remainder title:	Fiction, Famine, & the Rise of Economics in Victorian Britain & Ireland
Author:	Bigelow, Gordon,
Description:	1 online resource (ix, 229 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	English fiction - History and criticism. - 19th century -
Subject:	Ireland - Church history -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511484728
ISBN:	9780511484728 (ebook)

Fiction, famine, and the rise of economics in Victorian Britain and Ireland /
Bigelow, Gordon,1963-

Fiction, famine, and the rise of economics in Victorian Britain and Ireland /Fiction, Famine, & the Rise of Economics in Victorian Britain & IrelandGordon Bigelow. - 1 online resource (ix, 229 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;40. - Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;80..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Part I: Origin stories and political economy, 1740-1870 -- History as abstraction -- Value as signification -- Part II: Producing the consumer -- Market indicators: banking and housekeeping in Bleak House -- Esoteric solutions: Ireland and the colonial critique of political economy -- Toward a social theory of wealth: three novels by Elizabeth Gaskell.

We think of economic theory as a scientific speciality accessible only to experts, but Victorian writers commented on economic subjects with great interest. Gordon Bigelow focuses on novelists Charles Dickens and Elizabeth Gaskell and compares their work with commentaries on the Irish famine (1845-1852). Bigelow argues that at this moment of crisis the rise of economics depended substantially on concepts developed in literature. These works all criticized the systematized approach to economic life that the prevailing political economy proposed. Gradually the romantic views of human subjectivity, described in the novels, provided the foundation for a new theory of capitalism based on the desires of the individual consumer. Bigelow's argument stands out by showing how the discussion of capitalism in these works had significant influence not just on public opinion, but on the rise of economic theory itself.

ISBN: 9780511484728 (ebook)Subjects--Personal Names:

879110
Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn,
1810-1865--Criticism and interpretation--Handbooks, manuals, etc.Subjects--Topical Terms:

556935
English fiction
--History and criticism.--19th centurySubjects--Geographical Terms:

798848
Ireland
--Church history

LC Class. No.: PR868.E37 / B54 2003

Dewey Class. No.: 820.9/355

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