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Fiction, Famine, and the Rise of Economics in Victorian Britain and Ireland
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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.
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- ISBN-13: 9780521035538
- ISBN-10: 0521035538
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publish Date: April 2007
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.55 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.8 pounds
- Page Count: 244
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