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Author:

Çelikkol, Ayşe.

Title:

Romances of free trade : British literature, laissez-faire, and the global nineteenth century / Ayşe Çelikkol.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

x, 189 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Free trade in literature.
Capitalism in literature.
Economics in literature.
Globalization in literature.
Sovereignty in literature.
Authors, English--19th century--Political and social views.
Economics and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: narrating global capitalism in the romance mode -- Walter Scott's disloyal smugglers -- Meandering merchants and narrators in Captain Marryat's nautical fiction -- Harriet Martineau on the fertility of exchange -- Promiscuity, commerce, and closure in early Victorian drama -- Mutuality, marriage, and Charlotte Brontë's free traders -- The compression of space in Charles Dickens's Little Dorrit -- Epilogue: cycles of capitalist expansion.

ISBN:

0199769001 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780199769001 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)664519528

LCCN:

2010036265

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UXAX826 -- St. Ambrose University Library (Davenport)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)