Fiction, Famine, and the Rise of Economics in Victorian Britain and Ireland

By Gordon Bigelow

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521035538
• ISBN13: 9780521035538
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"