This article discusses Charlotte Brontë’s Shirley as a response to ‘The Hill and the Valley’, one of Harriet Martineau’s Illustrations of Political Economy. Whereas ‘The Hill and the Valley’ is informed by a belief that following the rules of political economy can solve all social problems of the day, Shirley, for all its similarities to Martineau’s novella, reflects different, less unambiguously affirmative attitudes to capitalism and political economy. Even the novel’s happy ending, which brings prosperity and settles social conflicts in Yorkshire, has too much of a fairy tale quality to convince the reader of the beneficial influence of the free market economy.

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“工作丰富，工资上涨”：夏洛蒂·勃朗特 (Charlotte Brontë) 的雪莉和哈丽特·马蒂诺 (Harriet Martineau) 的政治经济学插图中的政治经济学

本文将夏洛蒂·勃朗特的雪莉作为对哈丽特·马蒂诺的政治经济学插图之一“山丘与山谷”的回应。尽管“山丘与山谷”相信遵循政治经济学规则可以解决当今的所有社会问题，但雪莉尽管与马蒂诺的中篇小说有很多相似之处，但反映了对资本主义和政治的不同的、不那么明确的肯定态度。经济。即便是为约克郡带来繁荣和解决社会冲突的小说大团圆结局，也过于童话般的品质让读者相信自由市场经济的有益影响。