The ‚Invisible Hand‘ and British Fiction, 1818-1860

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Adam Smith, Political Economy, and the Genre of Realism, Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture

ISBN: 0230290787
ISBN 13: 9780230290785
Autor: Courtemanche, E
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: xi, 251 S.
Erscheinungsdatum: 12.04.2011
Auflage: 1/2011
Produktform: Gebunden/Hardback
Einband: GEB

Focus on literature and economic theory/ capitalism particularly timely at presentTaps into recent upsurge in interest in the relationship between Victorian fiction and economic theoryShows how the Adam Smith’s famous metaphor of the ‚invisible hand‘ haunts the emergence of nineteenth-century literary realism in EnglandProvides readers with an accessible overview of the formation of the modern field of political economy Takes a fresh approach to combining political and literary criticismDiscusses canonical realist novelists, including Austen, Dickens, Gaskell, Eliot and Thackeray

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Beschreibung

The 'invisible hand', Adam Smith's metaphor for the morality of capitalism, is explored in this text as being far more subtle and intricate than is usually understood, with many British realist fiction writers (Austen, Dickens, Gaskell, Eliot) having absorbed his model of ironic causality in complex societies and turned it to their own purposes.

Autorenporträt

ELEANOR COURTEMANCHE Assistant Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. She has also taught at Colby College, Macalester College, Claremont McKenna College, and Carleton College. In addition to Victorian studies, her research interests include German fiction, narrative theory, and the intersection between industry and aesthetics.

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