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The Failure of Trade's Empire in the History of Emily Montague
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The Failure of Trade's Empire in the History of Emily Montague
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The contingencies of applying free trade imperialism to an impoverished Quebec in the 1760s force the characters in France Brooke's 1769 novel, The History of Emily Montague, to abandon the sentimental colonial project, returning to England to establish their domestic Utopia. The author analyzes Emily Montague's ambiguous relation to the colonial project from an economic ideology perspective of global laissez-faire capitalism. She contends that Brooke's novel tries to narrate a plot of infinite wealth accumulation, but Quebec's particular political and economic problems will not abide. The novel lays bare the contradictions at the heart of this emerging liberal economic theory.
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Eighteenth-Century Fiction
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Vol. 23
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no. 2
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295-319
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Winter 2010-11
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en
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Binhammer, Katherine. “The Failure of Trade’s Empire in the History of Emily Montague.” Eighteenth-Century Fiction Vol. 23, no. 2 (Winter 2010): 295–319.
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