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

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

Gordon Bigelow - Fiction, Famine, and the Rise of Economics in Victorian Britain and Ireland
Published: 2003-11-24 | ISBN: 0521828481, 0521035538 | PDF | 244 pages | 1.66 MB


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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