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

The 'Invisible Hand' and British Fiction, 1818-1860
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Total Pages : 261
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ISBN-10 : 9780230304987
ISBN-13 : 0230304982
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Download or read book The 'Invisible Hand' and British Fiction, 1818-1860 written by E. Courtemanche and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-04-12 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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