The 'Invisible Hand' and British Fiction, 1818-1860 : Adam Smith, Political Economy, and the Genre of Realism /

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 causa...

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Main Author: Courtemanche, Eleanor (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Series:Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture.
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Summary: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.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (XI, 251 pages)
ISBN:9780230304987
DOI:10.1057/9780230304987