Romances of free trade British literature, laissez-faire, and the global nineteenth century

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

Author/creator	Çelikkol, Ayşe
Other author/creator	Oxford University Press.
Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	New York : Oxford University Press,
Description	x, 189 p. ; 25 cm.
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online Literature
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Subject(s)	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.

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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-183) and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2010036265
ISBN	9780199769001 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN	0199769001 (cloth : alk. paper)

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