Ready to trample on all human law : financial capitalism in the fiction of Charles Dickens / Paul A. Jarvie.

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Jarvie, Paul, 1949-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Studies in major literary authors (Unnumbered)Publisher: New York : Routledge, 2005Description: 1 online resource (ix, 205 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781135488512
1135488517
9780203959176
0203959175

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ready to trample on all human lawDDC classification:

823/.8 22

LOC classification:

PR4592.E25 J37 2005eb

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Contents:

"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.

Summary: 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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-200) and index.

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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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