Ready to Trample on All Human Law : Finance Capitalism in the Fiction of Charles Dickens.

This book explores the relationship between Dickens's novels and the financial system. Elements of Dickens's work form a critique of financial capitalism. This critique is rooted in the difference between use-value and exchange-value, and in the difference between productive circulations a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jarvie, Paul A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014.
Colección:Studies in major literary authors.
Temas:
1800-1899
Capitalism and literature > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Capitalists and financiers in literature.
Dickens, Charles > 1812-1870 > Characters > Capitalists and financiers.
Dickens, Charles > 1812-1870 > Knowledge > Economics.
Economics in literature.
Finance in literature.
Capitalisme et littérature > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Capitalistes et financiers dans la littérature.
Économie politique dans la littérature.
Capitalism and literature
Capitalists and financiers in literature
Economics in literature
Finance in literature
Great Britain
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction Dickens's Evolving Critique of Financial Capitalism; Chapter One ""I hold myself released from such hard bargains as these"": Nicholas Nickleby and ""Brotherly"" Capitalism; Chapter Two ""With what astrange mastery it seized him for itself"": The Conversion of the Financier in A Christmas Carol; Chapter Three ""Terribly wild rang the panic cry"": Finance, Panic and the Struggle for Life in Little Dorrit.
  • Chapter Four ""Among the dying and the dead"": Metonymy and Finance Capitalism in Our Mutual FriendConclusion; Notes; Works Cited; Index.

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