Gordon Bigelow

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

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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 foundatio… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Gordon, Bigelow / Beer, Gillian (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-0-521-82848-2
EAN: 9780521828482
Produktnummer: 1624259
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
Seitenangabe: 244 S.
Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D1.9 cm 533 g
Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
Gewicht: 533

Über den Autor

Gordon Bigelow is Assistant Professor of English at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. His work has appeared in the journals ELH and New Orleans Review and in the volume Reclaiming Gender: Transgressive Identities in 19th-century Ireland (1999).