Fiction, Famine, and the Rise of Economics in Victorian Britain and IrelandCambridge University Press, 20 лист. 2003 р. - 229 стор. 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. |
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... early Victorian novel of society, and they continued to exert a belated influence in other arenas of modern life: education, work, leisure, gender, politics, and, I will argue in this book, economics.2 In chapters that follow on Charles ...
... early Victorian novel of society, and they continued to exert a belated influence in other arenas of modern life: education, work, leisure, gender, politics, and, I will argue in this book, economics.2 In chapters that follow on Charles ...
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... earliest glimpses of the neoclassical approach in English economic thought originated from the harshest critics of liberal political economy in the early Victorian period – romantics and Tory traditionalists. Although Thomas De Quincey ...
... earliest glimpses of the neoclassical approach in English economic thought originated from the harshest critics of liberal political economy in the early Victorian period – romantics and Tory traditionalists. Although Thomas De Quincey ...
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... early Victorian fiction and non-fiction prose. The hegemonic staying power of economics can be clarified through such an approach; so can its particular limitations and blindnesses. Serious students of economics today learn that the ...
... early Victorian fiction and non-fiction prose. The hegemonic staying power of economics can be clarified through such an approach; so can its particular limitations and blindnesses. Serious students of economics today learn that the ...
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... early linguists and political economists in order to reveal the historical trends at work in the shaping of knowledge. To put the issue another way, I am interested here not in a structural link between money and language, but in what ...
... early linguists and political economists in order to reveal the historical trends at work in the shaping of knowledge. To put the issue another way, I am interested here not in a structural link between money and language, but in what ...
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... early eighteenth century is the starting point of Part i below. Caught up in the writing of financial numbers, I argue, are all the real and symbolic dangers of an emerging financial system. It was the romantic approach to language ...
... early eighteenth century is the starting point of Part i below. Caught up in the writing of financial numbers, I argue, are all the real and symbolic dangers of an emerging financial system. It was the romantic approach to language ...
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