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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1. Verfasser: Jarvie, Paul, 1949-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York : Routledge, 2005.
Schriftenreihe:Studies in major literary authors (Unnumbered)
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (ix, 205 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-200) and index.
ISBN:9781135488512
1135488517
9780203959176
0203959175

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