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Fiction, Famine, and the Rise of Economics in Victorian Britain and Ireland (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)
Fiction Famine and the Rise of Economics in Victorian Britain and Ireland - Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture Author:Gordon Bigelow During the Irish Famine of 1845-52, novels by Dickens and Gaskell, as well as a range of commentaries on the Irish disaster, argued for a new theory of individual expression in opposition to the systemized approach to economic life that political economy proposed. These romantic views of human subjectivity eventually provided the foundation for ... more »a new theory of capitalism based on the desires of the individual consumer.« less