The 'invisible Hand' and British Fiction, 1818-1860

Adam Smith, Political Economy, and the Genre of Realism
2011. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-230-29078-5
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 251 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 522 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Courtemanche, E.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements Introduction: Capitalist Moral Philosophy, Narrative Technology, and the Bounded Nation-State PART I: READING ADAM SMITH Imaginary Vantage Points: The Invisible Hand and the Rise of Political Economy PART II: EARLY NINETEENTH-CENTURY NOVELS AND INVISIBLE HAND SOCIAL THEORY Omniscient Narrators and the Return of the Gothic in Northanger Abbey and Bleak House Providential Endings: Martineau, Dickens, and the Didactic Task of Political Economy Ripple Effects and the Fog of War in Vanity Fair  Inappropriate Sympathies in Gaskell and Eliot Conclusion: Realist Capitalism, Gothic Capitalism Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

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.