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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jarvie, Paul, 1949-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Routledge, 2005.
Colección:Studies in major literary authors (Unnumbered)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "I hold myself released from such hard bargains as these" : Nicholas Nickleby and "brotherly" capitalism
  • "With what strange mastery it seized him for itself" : the conversion of the financier in A Christmas carol
  • "Terribly wild ran the panic cry" : finance, panic, and the struggle for life in Little Dorrit
  • "Among the dying and the dead" : metonymy and finance capitalism in Our mutual friend.