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The problem of profit : finance and feeling in eighteenth-century British literature /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Genovese, Michael, 1976- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019.
Subjects:
English literature > 18th century > History and critisim.
Finance in literature.
Emotions in literature.
1700-1799
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The Problem of Profit
  • People and Profits
  • Organic Commerce, Georgic Sympathy
  • Feeling Paper; or, Giving Credit to Periodicals
  • The Character of Self-Interest in David Simple and Amelia
  • Writing Off Sensibility in Hume, Johnson, and Sterne
  • Coda: Finance without Feeling.