description: 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.
language: English
title: Fiction, Famine, and the Rise of Economics in Victorian Britain and Ireland
titlecomplete: Fiction, Famine, and the Rise of Economics in Victorian Britain and Ireland (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Series Number 40)
genres: History
ratings_count: 3
series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
publisher: Cambridge University Press