1st Edition
Ready to Trample on All Human Law Finance Capitalism in the Fiction of Charles Dickens
By Paul A. Jarvie
Copyright 2005
216 Pages
75 B/W Illustrations
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Routledge
216 Pages
75 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
216 Pages
75 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Introduction: Dickens's Evolving Critique of Financial Capitalism 1. "I hold myself released from such hard bargains as these": Nicholas Nickleby and "Brotherly" Capitalism 2. "With what a strange mastery it seized him for itself": The Conversion of the Financier in A Christmas Carol 3. "Terribly wild rang the panic cry": Finance, Panic and the Struggle for Life in Little Dorrit 4."Among the dying and the dead": Metonymy and Finance Capitalism in Our Mutual Friend
Biography
Jarvie, Paul A.
