Buch, Englisch, Band 49, 187 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 465 g
Reihe: Issues in Business Ethics
Lessons in Business Ethics from Becky Sharp
Buch, Englisch, Band 49, 187 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 465 g
Reihe: Issues in Business Ethics
ISBN: 978-3-319-98730-9
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
This book brings Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments into conversation with William Makepeace Thackeray’s Vanity Fair to offer an analysis of vanity and the objects (proper and otherwise) to which it may be directed. Leading the way through the literary case study presented here is Becky Sharp, theambitious and cunning protagonist of Thackeray’s novel. Becky is joined by a number of other 19th Century literary heroines – drawn from the novels of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë and George Eliot – whose feminine (and feminist) perspectives complement Smith’s astute observations and complicate his account of vanity. The fictional characters featured in this volume enrich and deepen our understanding of Smith’s work and disclose parts of our own experience in a fresh way, revealing the dark and at times ridiculous aspects of life in Vanity Fair, today as in the past.
Zielgruppe
Research
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Unternehmensethik
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung Wirtschaftsethik, Unternehmensethik
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft: Theorie & Allgemeines
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
- Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
Weitere Infos & Material
Introduction.- A profile of Becky Sharp.- Chapter 1 – To be quiet and very much interested.- Chapter 2 – Educating the martial spirit.- Chapter 3 – Ambition, the poor man’s son, and the poor man’s daughter.- Chapter 4 – The self-estimation and self-command of a mighty conqueror.- Chapter 5 – Partial and impartial spectators in Vanity Fair.- Chapter 6 – An industrious knave becomes respectable.- Conclusion.