'invisible hand' and british fiction, 1818-1860, the: adam smith, political economy, and the genre of realism
Auteur :
Courtemanche, E.
Éditeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN :
9781349331581
Date de publication :
1 janv. 2011
Dimensions :
21,6 x 14,0 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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.