Ready to trample on all human law : financial capitalism in the fiction of Charles Dickens / / Paul A. Jarvie
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| Autore: |
Jarvie Paul <1949, >
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| Titolo: |
Ready to trample on all human law : financial capitalism in the fiction of Charles Dickens / / Paul A. Jarvie
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| Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Routledge, , 2005 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (216 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 823/.8 |
| Soggetto topico: | Capitalism and literature - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
| Capitalists and financiers in literature | |
| Economics in literature | |
| Finance in literature | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-200) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Ready to trample on all human law |
| ISBN: | 1-135-48851-7 |
| 1-135-48844-4 | |
| 0-203-95917-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910812771103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Studies in Major Literary Authors