Romances of free trade british literature, laissez faire, and the global nineteenth century

www.ebook3000.com Romances of Free Trade This page intentionally left blank www.ebook3000.com Romances of Free Trade British Literature, Laissez-Faire, and the Global Nineteenth Century Ayşe Çelikkol Oxford University Press, Inc., publishes works that further Oxford University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education Oxford New York Auckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi New Delhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto With offices in Argentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore South Korea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam Copyright © 2011 by Oxford University Press, Inc Published by Oxford University Press, Inc 198 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10016 www.oup.com Oxford is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press All rights reserved No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of Oxford University Press Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Çelikkol, Ayşe Romances of free trade : British literature, laissez-faire, and the global nineteenth century / Ayşe Çelikkol p cm Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN 978-0-19-976900-1 English literature—19th century—History and criticism Free trade in literature Capitalism in literature Economics in literature Globalization in literature Sovereignty in literature Authors, English—19th century—Political and social views Economics and literature—Great Britain—History—19th century I Title PR468.F74C45 2011 820.9′3553—dc22 2010036265 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper www.ebook3000.com For Ưznur Çelikkol and Ahmet Çelikkol, my parents This page intentionally left blank www.ebook3000.com Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Narrating Global Capitalism in the Romance Mode ix Walter Scott’s Disloyal Smugglers 21 Meandering Merchants and Narrators in Captain Marryat’s Nautical Fiction 43 Harriet Martineau on the Fertility of Exchange 63 Promiscuity, Commerce, and Closure in Early Victorian Drama 83 Mutuality, Marriage, and Charlotte Brontë’s Free Traders 101 The Compression of Space in Charles Dickens’s Little Dorrit 123 Epilogue: Cycles of Capitalist Expansion 143 Notes Select Bibliography Index 151 177 185 This page intentionally left blank www.ebook3000.com Acknowledgments I have had the great fortune of having extraordinary mentors who have inspired and encouraged me from the earliest iterations of the ideas that shaped this book Helena Michie and Robert L Patten, my dissertation directors at Rice University’s English Department, have offered generous criticism and suggestions during and far beyond my years at Rice I thank them for their unending support and guidance Many scholars and intellectual communities have provided support and inspiration over the years as I worked on this book Betty Joseph always asked difficult questions and encouraged me to take on challenges; Peter C Caldwell helped me work through the history of political economy; and Ed Snow allowed me to think about language like never before Dickens Universe has been a source of intellectual wonder and pleasure, and I am deeply grateful to John Jordan and everybody else who makes the Universe work My colleagues at Macalester College from 2005 to 2009 gave me the gift of their warm smiles and more In addition to providing useful feedback on my writing, Theresa Krier inspired me with her prose Daylanne English, as chair, created many opportunities for me to conduct research and collect feedback from experts in the field during the most critical years of my work on this book At Macalester, drafting chapters in my office late at night would not have been as much fun without Maura Tarnoff writing next door Macalester’s Wallace Grant funded crucial archival research at the British Library While I worked through the ix Notes to Pages 145–148 175 Arrighi explains how the cycles by nature consume themselves: “Capitalist power in the world system cannot expand indefinitely without undermining inter-state competition for mobile capital on which the expansion rests” (The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power, and the Origins of Our Times [New York: Verso, 1994], 18) Each cycle’s reliance on the nation-state for expansion has not always been recognized: “capitalism and nation-states grew up together and presumably depended on each other in some way, yet capitalists and centers of accumulation often offered concerted resistance to the expansion of state power” (Charles Tilly, Big Structures, Large Processes, Huge Comparisons [New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1989], 140) In 1860, England and France signed a treaty to allow free trade between the two countries This treaty is an important exception to Britain’s former practice of unilateral free trade Arrighi, The Long Twentieth Century, 55 For an exploration of why Britain emerged victorious in this cycle of capitalist expansion, see 36–47 10 Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time (Boston: Beacon, 1957), 3–20 11 Polanyi, The Great Transformation, 139 12 Arrighi, The Long Twentieth Century, 54 13 Ellen Meiksins Wood, Capital of Empire (New York: Verso, 2005), 111 14 Charles Kindleberger, American Business Abroad: Six Lectures on Direct Investment (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1969), 207 15 For the decline of state power and the increasing sovereignty of corporations and other commercial units, see Susan Strange, The Retreat of the State: The Diffusion of Power in the World Economy (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996); for the paradoxical strengthening of the nation-state in globalization and the shifting functions of governments, see, respectively, Michael Mann, “Has Globalization Ended the Rise and Rise of the Nation-State?” Review of International Political Economy 4, no (1997); and Ron Martin and Peter Surley, “The Post-Keynesian State and the Space Economy,” in Geographies of Economies, ed R Lee and J Willis (London: Arnold, 1997), 280–291 For an overview of this debate, see David Held and Anthony McGrew, “The Great Globalization Debate: An Introduction,” in The Global Transformations Reader: An Introduction to the Globalization Debate, ed David Held and Anthony McGrew (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2000) 16 Giovanni Arrighi, Chaos and Governance in the Modern World System (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999) 17 Meiksins Wood, Capital of Empire, 18 Anthony Giddens and Will Hutton, eds., Global Capitalism (New York: New Press, 2000); Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Empire (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001) 19 Mann, “Has Globalization Ended?” 472; Held and McGrew, “The Great Globalization Debate,” 11 Even these points are not uncontested Paul Hirst and Grahame Thompson maintain that the system is still international, not transnational: “The present highly internationalized economy is not unprecedented: it is one of a number of distinct conjunctures or states of the international economy that have existed since  .  the 1860s In some respects, the current international economy is less open and integrated than the regime that prevailed from 1870 to 1914.” Genuinely transnational companies (TNCs) appear to be relatively rare Most companies are nationally based and trade multinationally on the strength of a major national location of production and 176 Notes to Pages 148–149 sales (Globalization in Question: The International Economy and the Possibilities of Governance [Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1996], 2) 20 The phrase “uneven development” was originally used by Karl Marx to describe the necessary coexistence of the rich and the poor under capitalism (Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, vols., trans Ben Fowkes and introd Ernest Mandel [New York: Penguin, 1992]) Recently, the term is evoked in globalization debates to stress that the affluence of some parts of the world requires the underdevelopment of others See especially David Harvey, A Brief History of Neoliberalism (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007) www.ebook3000.com Select Bibliography Agathocleous, Tanya “London Mysteries and International Conspiracies: James, Doyle, and the Aesthetics of Cosmopolitanism.” Nineteenth-Century Contexts 26 (2004): 125–148 Anderson, Amanda Powers of Distance: Cosmopolitanism and the Cultivation of Detachment Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001 Anderson, Benedict Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism New York: Verso, 1991 Armstrong, Nancy Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel New York: Oxford University Press, 1987 Arrighi, Giovanni Chaos and Governance in the Modern World System Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999 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110, 114, 133 and temporality, 64, 68, 71–81 antiauthoritarianism in globalization, 13, 44, 60, 63, 100 as narrative mode, 51 of seafarers, 15, 43, 56, 106, 121, 128 antiquity (see also romance), 12, 13, 32, 60, 120 Arrighi, Giovanni, 145, 147, 148 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 12, 15, 32, 38, 39, 78, 139, 140 Belgium, 16, 106, 108, 130, 133, 137 Boaz, David, 81 borders absence of, 4, 8–11, 15, 76–79, 127 alliances across, 19, 73, 95 and Gothic, 129–132 policing of, 3, 47 and sexual subversion, 56, 124 transgression of, 5, 6, 24, 28, 37, 40, 55, 81, 91, 143–146, 149 bourgeoisie, 17, 33, 116, 124, 128, 131, 134 185 Bright, John, 92 Brontë, Charlotte Jane Eyre, 103, 117 life of, 105 Shirley, 16, 102–105, 107–121 The Professor, 16, 102–107 Villette, 105 Byron, Lord, 50 Canada, 6, 28 capital accumulation of, 74, 143, 146 investment of, 90, 147 mobility of, 4, 6, 7, 85, 91, 124, 125, 129, 130, 135, 137, 143, 148 Carlyle, Thomas, 111, 116, 119, 144 Ceylon, 7, 68 China, 8, 54, 124–128 chivalry, 88, 118, 119 Christianity (see religion) cinnamon, 3, class absence of, 64 conflict, 8, 19, 104, 107, 111 cooperation across, 15, 112 middle, 33, 37, 80, 84, 97 working , 12, 24, 67, 83, 128 closure (see narrative closure) 18 Index Cobden, Richard, 45, 71, 72, 92–96, 111, 124, 127, 133 cognitive mapping (see also maps), 28, 78, 140 colonialism as distinct from free trade, 6, 7, 27–30, 67, 68, 84, 89, 91–96, 101 as reinforcing free-trade imperialism, 147, 148 and seafaring , 15, 43, 52, 58 condition-of-England novel (see social problem novel) consumerism, 54, 56, 77, 84, 85, 94, 134 continental Europe anxieties about, 5, 6, 28, 47, 108, 147 contraband trade with, 36, 55 and Jacobites, 27, 40 and the liberals, 95 restrictions on trade with, 145 Scotland’s ties to, 22, 26 Corn Laws critiques of, 21, 23, 35, 71–74, 80, 110, 111 and famine, 109 repeal of, 8, 16, 68, 90, 93, 100, 102, 106, 125, 128 support for, 5, 25, 45, 48 cosmopolitanism and affect, 95, 96, 103–108, 118, 133 as mixing , 27, 53–56, 73, 123, 127, 128, 131 defined, 19 in the Enlightenment, 36, 37 feminization of, 77 and nationhood, 16, 26, 45, 46, 78, 120, 132 religious support for, 72, 73 cotton, 16, 108, 109, 112, 120, 146 decentralization, 11–13, 44, 61, 145 Dickens, Charles Bleak House, 136 Dombey and Son, 138 Hard Times, 22, 103 Little Dorrit, 16, 123–141 essays and journalism of, 127, 128 disorientation, 5, 13, 17, 121, 132–140 distance (see space) domesticity and colonialism, 77 as metaphor for commerce, 16, 76, 102–109, 112–115 and paternalism, 18, 84, 92 threatened by commerce, 86–90, 97–99, 130–137 Drury Lane, 87 Dutch commerce, 3, 7, 15, 29, 40, 47, 52, 55, 110, 145 duties, 3–12, 22–24, 35, 45–48, 56, 91, 94, 147 East India Company, 28, 67, 68, 126, 127, 147 economic literary criticism, 8, 9, 143, 144 economic man, 64–67, 85, 102–104, 109, 117 Elliot, John Lettsom, 4, 15, 90–100 Elliott, Ebenezer, 4, 64, 71, 72, 74, 162, 163 Enlightenment cosmopolitanism of, 19–25, 36, 37, 45, 95, 132, 133 as optimistic, 20, 22, 104 in relation to the nineteenth century, 54, 65, 92 Scottish, 14 and sympathy, 40, 105 empire (see colonialism) English Channel, 9, 28, 47, 124, 136 epic, 11, 59, 60 family (see domesticity) famine, 8, 72, 75, 109, farce, 63, 85, 86, 88, 97, 100, 121, 131 femininity and fertility, 15, 64–85 as consumerist, 17, 56, 77, 84 of cosmopolitanism, 76 of free trade, 70, 77, 80 in nationalism, 77 in history of the novel, 102, 103, 108, 109 France contraband trade with, 3, 23 goods from, 24, 28, 77 as enemy, 15, 36, 46, 47, 55 as setting , 123, 124, 130, 139 ties to, 27, 37, 53, 95, 96, 108 Friedman, Thomas, Gaskell, Elizabeth, 103 gender (see femininity and domesticity) Glasscock, William N., 83 www.ebook3000.com Index globalization (see also borders, postnationality, and transnationality) as historically continuous, 4, 5, 11, 39, 135, 145 as distinct in the twentieth century, 148 economic, 7, 19 gothic, 17, 34, 116, 117, 124–141 Great Exhibition, 97, 98, 126–129, 145 Green, Thomas, 49 Harvey, David, 135 historical novel, 3, 30, 31, 40 Homo Economicus (see economic man) Horne, Richard Henry, 128 Hume, David, 19, 21, 22, 36, 37, 40, 45, 133 imperialism (see colonialism) India, 6, 28, 29, 40, 67, 68, 97, 147 individual (see also liberalism and privacy) and affect, 4, 31, 33, 40 freedom of, 19, 20, 22, 43, 49, 50–53, 57–60, 66, 71, 92–94, 107–109, 114, 132, 141 interaction with others, 5, 11, 56, 57, 81, 83, 101, 109, 114 as self-sufficient, 17, 19, 22, 44, 57, 63–66, 85, 102, 103, 116, 131 industrialism dreariness of, 16, 70 and hostility, 19, 22, 104 in imagery, 75, 118, 119 and machinery, 97, 107, 111 and the past, 39, 64, 73, 120 and Romanticism, 17, 116, 119 interdependence due to climate difference, 65, 71 global, 18–22, 64–66, 101, 116 interiority, 31–34, 102, 107, 117 invisible hand, 24, 71, 84 islands, 15, 38, 48, 52, 64, 70, 75–81, 88 isolation as economic policy, 24, 25, 47, 124, 128 of individuals, 33, 41, 64, 81, 124 in nature, 70, 77, 123 Jacobites, 27, 34–37, 40 James, George Payne Rainsford, 3, 4, 40, 41 Kant, Immanuel, 19, 36, 37, 45, 54, 133 18 labor, 55, 65, 67, 102, 109, 111, 112, 128, 131, 147 liberalism in economic thought, 14–19, 22–27, 64–66, 91–94, 100–110, 125–128 philosophical principles of, 49, 50, 56, 57, 68, 89 and women’s rights, 77, 92–94, 114–115 licensing bills, 85, 87, 88 Locke, John, 49, 92, 137 Luddites, 16, 107, 111, 118 luxury goods, 17, 65, 77, 84, 94 marriage (see domesticity) Macaulay, Thomas Babington, 7, 29, 68 Malthus, Thomas, 20, 22, 75 Mandeville, Bernard, 65, 84 maps (see also cognitive mapping ), 20, 97, 98, 138, 140 Marryat, Frederick King’s Own, 14, 44, 48, 53–56 life of, 47–48 Mr Midshipman Easy, 14, 48–51 Newton Forster, 54, 58, 59 Phantom Ship, 51, 21 Snarleyyow, 10, 50, 53–56 Martineau, Harriet British Rule in India, 67 on colonialism, 67, 68 Illustrations of Political Economy, 67, 69, 74 “Dawn Island” on slavery, 67 Marx, Karl, 6, 13, 17, 91, 116, 124, 131, 134, 135 McCulloch, John Ramsay, 9, 14, 24, 65, 71, 101, 109, 127, 133, 144 melodrama, 10, 31, 32, 85–88, 117, 143 mercantilism (see also protectionism), 5, 17, 95 monopoly and colonialism, 28, 67, 68, 95, 96, 126, 127 critiques of, 49, 80 metaphors of, 99, 116 and narration, 51, 52 in theater, 87 Mill, James, 14, 27, 65, 71, 91 18 Index Mill, John Stuart, 93 multinational community, 4, 10, 15, 21, 44, 53–57, 61 myth, 11, 15, 17, 52, 66–69, 78–82, 97, 119, 120 Napoleonic Wars, 6, 25, 28, 43, 108 narrative closure, 16, 52, 83–100 nation-state (see nationhood and state) nationhood (see also borders and transnationality) as antagonistic to global capitalism, 4, 5, 9, 20, 26, 35–37, 45–48, 69, 73, 97, 143, 149 contradictions of, 89 and the history of the novel, 18–19, 31 and identity, 14, 21, 27, 33, 39, 55, 92, 93 as reinforced by global capitalism, 8, 145, 146 in relation to the colonies, 6, 12, 28, 49, 77, 84, 99 unity of, 31, 48, 60 nature as borderless, 64 in harmony with capitalism, 66, 70, 71–80, 120 necessitates trade, 65, 66 threatened by capitalism, 17, 70 Navigation Laws, 45, 91, 125 opium, 8, 16, 125–127, 130 Orders in Council, 108, 111, 112 parliament, 26, 35, 36, 92, 110 paternalism (see also state and domesticity), 9, 18, 30, 83, 84, 97, 100, 101, 117, 137 pax Britannica, 146 periodicals, 24, 71, 80, 95, 127, 133, 134 plot (see also romance) as digressive, 11, 12, 51, 57, 58, 86, 100 driven by blackmail, 17, 130, 137 driven by eros and marriage, 16, 29, 56, 96, 102, 107, 113–115, 118 versus statis, 52, 99 Polanyi, Karl, 111, 146 political economy by conservatives, 90–96 by liberals, 7, 14, 23–26, 64–67, 84, 109, 110, 141 as linked to fiction, 8, postcolonial criticism, 7, 116 postnationality (see also transnationality), 9, 39, 41, 44, 81 premodernity as nonnationalized, 15, 38, 39, 74, 78, 81, 139 as the setting of free trade, 69–71, 79, 120 privacy, 30–34, 49, 60, 74, 108, 124, 131, 134, 136 prostitution (see also sexuality), 56, 84, 85, 94 Radicals, 36, 93, 94, 112 realism, 13, 30, 31, 34, 39, 69, 117, 138 religion as cosmopolitan, 74, 78, 79 in support of capitalism, 71–73, 80 Ricardo, David, 5, 9, 14, 20, 22, 24, 65, 85, 95, 104, 109, 144 romance in ancient Greece, 12, 13, 32, 40, 139, 140 abstraction in, 12, 13, 15, 38–40, 78, 139, 140 adventures in, 11, 12–16, 30, 31, 34, 43, 44, 46, 49, 50–54, 58, 88–90, 96, 118, 139, 140 and the past, 31, 39, 69, 70, 78, 79, 116, 117 enchantment in, 17, 30, 78, 79, 88, 116, 120 episodic structure of, 10, 13, 15, 44, 58–60, 86, 140 imperial, 17, 79 Romanticism, 34, 50, 58, 70, 79, 81, 116, 118, 119, 144 Ruskin, John, 38 Scotland, 21, 22, 25–29, 36, 47, 48 Scott, Walter Guy Mannering, 14, 22, 23, 26–33, 40, 43 The Heart of Midlothian, 26, 33, 34 life of, 24, 25 Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, 25 The Pirate, 48, 49 Redgauntlet, 14, 22, 26, 30–40 Waverley, 33, 38 www.ebook3000.com Index sea, 10, 12, 44, 47–50, 55, 70, 72, 76, 80, 123, 138 self-regulating markets, 18, 71, 84, 91, 99 self-reliance (see individualism) separate spheres (see also privacy), 102, 131 Serle, Thomas, 4, 15, 16, 86, 88, 121 sexuality in homoeroticism, 83, 94 and marriage, 14, 16, 59, 76, 84, 86, 90, 97–100, 101–121, 132 as promiscuity, 15, 53–59, 63, 83–100, 101 ships, 12, 36, 40, 51, 52–54, 59, 77, 78, 128 silk, 3, 24 slavery, 47, 67, 131 Smith, Adam, 5, 9, 19, 21, 23, 40, 45, 64, 71, 84, 95, 104, 105 Smith, Charlotte, 50 smuggling in Captain Marryat, 48, 53–56 in Charles Dickens, 124, 125 in G P R James, 3, Victorian drama, 86–90 history of, 26, 47 literary function of, 9, 10 in political economy, 23–26 in Walter Scott, 14, 21–44 social problem novel, 103, 116, 128 sovereignty, 4, 5, 7, 18, 19, 23, 60, 137, 145, 146, 148 space as abstract, 3–40, 12–15, 78, 139, 140 compression of, 13, 17, 123, 124, 128, 132–148 and distance, 13, 28, 40, 64, 68, 74, 105, 124, 125 and liminality, 85, 88–90, 97, 100 speculation, 4, 105, 114, 129 Spence, William, 91 state (see also paternalism) economic intervention by, 3, 6, 7, 11, 36, 40, 43, 44, 58, 79, 83, 90, 93, 127, 128 loyalty to, 21–41, 53–57, 92 power of, 10, 11, 14, 19, 23, 48, 49, 50, 56, 59, 71, 73, 89 regulation of theater by, 85, 87, 88 threats to, 4, 8,10, 45–48, 99, 101, 120, 145 subjectivity (see individualism) sugar, 7, 91 Stewart, Dugald, 25 Stoker, Bram, 131 Thompson, Perronet, 9, 110, 111 Torrens, Robert, 110 transnationality defined, and the history of the novel, 13, 18, 19, 137, 138 imagination of, 9, 15, 18, 20, 22, 64, 81, 117 individualism of, 13–15, 19, 31, 53, 57, 63, 141 in seafaring , 27, 37, 49, 56, 59 in and after the twentieth century, 148 Trollope, Anthony, 137, 138 Tucker, Josiah, 110 tyranny, 19, 87, 115, 118, 132 United States, 6, 45, 95, 105, 108, 111, 112, 145 urban environments, 10, 17, 19, 22, 90, 104 Walpole, Horace, 139 Wordswoth, William, 58, 116 world-systems theory, 7, 145 18 .. .Romances of Free Trade This page intentionally left blank www.ebook3000.com Romances of Free Trade British Literature, Laissez- Faire, and the Global Nineteenth Century Ayşe Çelikkol... narrate the waning of import tariffs and duties in the nineteenth century Centrifugal forms and themes capture the motion of commodities under laissez- faire, conveying the core element of reification... captured in The Smuggler, coexisted with Britons’ confidence in their country’s economic and political prowess in the first half of the nineteenth century The prospect of free trade the economic