The 'invisible hand' and British fiction, 1818-1860 : Adam Smith, political economy, and the genre of realism
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The 'invisible hand' and British fiction, 1818-1860 : Adam Smith, political economy, and the genre of realism
(Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture)
Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-244) and index
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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.
Table of Contents
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
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