Drawing on works by Walter Scott, Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, 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.
Drawing on works by Walter Scott, Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, 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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Ayse Celikkol is Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature at Bilkent University in Turkey.
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Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Narrating Global Capitalism in the Romance Mode 2. Walter Scott's Disloyal Smugglers 3. Meandering Merchants and Narrators in Captain Marryat's Nautical Fiction 4. Harriet Martineau on the Fertility of Exchange 5. Promiscuity, Commerce, and Closure in Early Victorian Drama 6. Mutuality, Marriage, and Charlotte Brontë's Free Traders 7. The Compression of Space in Charles Dickens's Little Dorrit 8. Epilogue: Cycles of Capitalist Expansion Endnotes Select Bibliography Index
Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Narrating Global Capitalism in the Romance Mode 2. Walter Scott's Disloyal Smugglers 3. Meandering Merchants and Narrators in Captain Marryat's Nautical Fiction 4. Harriet Martineau on the Fertility of Exchange 5. Promiscuity, Commerce, and Closure in Early Victorian Drama 6. Mutuality, Marriage, and Charlotte Brontë's Free Traders 7. The Compression of Space in Charles Dickens's Little Dorrit 8. Epilogue: Cycles of Capitalist Expansion Endnotes Select Bibliography Index
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