Paul A. Jarvie

Ready to Trample on All Human Law (eBook, ePUB)

Finance Capitalism in the Fiction of Charles Dickens

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This study explores both Dickens's critical view of capitalism and his complex role (as a premier producer of commodity-text "products," as a successful entrepreneur, as a careful accumulator of capital and, of course, as a trenchant social critic) within the system of nineteenth-century British financial capitalism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135488512
• Artikelnr.: 40445743

Autorenporträt

Jarvie, Paul A.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Dickens's Evolving Critique of Financial Capitalism 1. "I
hold myself released from such hard bargains as these": Nicholas Nickleby
and "Brotherly" Capitalism 2. "With what a strange mastery it seized him
for itself": The Conversion of the Financier in A Christmas Carol 3.
"Terribly wild rang the panic cry": Finance, Panic and the Struggle for
Life in Little Dorrit 4."Among the dying and the dead": Metonymy and
Finance Capitalism in Our Mutual Friend