Ready to trample on all human law : financial 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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Routledge,
2005.
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Colección: | Studies in major literary authors (Unnumbered)
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | 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 and mere accumulation. In a money-based society, exchange-value and accumulation dominate to the point where they infect even the most important and sacred relationships between parts of society and individuals. This study explores Dickens's critique from two very different points of view. The first. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 205 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-200) and index. |
ISBN: | 9781135488512 1135488517 9780203959176 0203959175 |