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Romances of free trade British literature, laissez-faire, and the global nineteenth century

Title
Romances of free trade [electronic resource] : British literature, laissez-faire, and the global nineteenth century / Ayşe Çelikkol.
Author
Çelikkol, Ayşe.
Publication
New York : Oxford University Press, c2011.

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Description
1 online resource (x, 189 p.)
Uniform Title
Romances of free trade (Online)
Alternative Title
Romances of free trade (Online)
Subject
  • English literature > 19th century > History and criticism
  • Free trade in literature
  • Capitalism in literature
  • Economics in literature
  • Globalization in literature
  • Sovereignty in literature
  • Authors, English > 19th century > Political and social views
  • Economics and literature > Great Britain > History > 19th century
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-183) and index.
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Contents
Introduction: narrating global capitalism in the romance mode -- Walter Scott's disloyal smugglers -- Meandering merchants and narrators in Captain Marryat's nautical fiction -- Harriet Martineau on the fertility of exchange -- Promiscuity, commerce, and closure in early Victorian drama -- Mutuality, marriage, and Charlotte Brontë's free traders -- The compression of space in Charles Dickens's Little Dorrit -- Epilogue: cycles of capitalist expansion.
LCCN
2010036265
OCLC
ssj0000571245
Author
Çelikkol, Ayşe.
Title
Romances of free trade [electronic resource] : British literature, laissez-faire, and the global nineteenth century / Ayşe Çelikkol.
Imprint
New York : Oxford University Press, c2011.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-183) and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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