Romances of free trade
Subtitle: British literature, laissez-faire, and the global nineteenth century
By: Ayşe Çelikkol
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
ISBN-13: 9780199769001
Description: Drawing on works by Walter Scott, Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: narrating global capitalism in the romance mode; title: Walter Scott's disloyal smugglers; title: Meandering merchants and narrators in Captain Marryat's nautical fiction; title: Harriet Martineau on the fertility of exchange; title: Promiscuity, commerce, and closure in early Victorian drama; title: Mutuality, marriage, and Charlotte Brontë's free traders; title: The compression of space in Charles Dickens's Little Dorrit; title: Epilogue: cycles of capitalist expansion.