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

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

1st Edition 2011

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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.

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Book information

ISBN: 9781349331581
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Pub date:
Edition: 1st Edition 2011
Language: English
Number of pages: 251
Weight: 340g
Height: 216mm
Width: 140mm
Spine width: 15mm