Ayse Celikkol

Romances of Free Trade

British Literature, Laissez-Faire, and the Global Nineteenth Century

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780199769001
• ISBN-10: 0199769001
• Artikelnr.: 33252874

Autorenporträt

Ayse Celikkol is Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature at Bilkent University in Turkey.

Inhaltsangabe

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