Title: Romances of free trade
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.
Subjects: Economics in literature, English Authors, English literature, History and criticism, Sovereignty in literature, Political and social views, Economics and literature, Free trade in literature, Capitalism in literature, Globalization in literature, History, English literature, history and criticism, 19th century, Authors, english
Places: Great Britain
Time periods: 19th century