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The 'invisible hand' and British fiction 1818-1860 : Adam Smith, political economy, and the genre of realism

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : 單行本
副題名:	Adam Smith, political economy, and the genre of realism
作者:	CourtemancheEleanor, 1968-
其他團體作者:	Palgrave Connect (Online service)
出版地:	New York
出版者:	Palgrave Macmillan;
出版年:	2011
面頁冊數:	1 online resource.
集叢名:	Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture
標題:	English fiction - History and criticism. - 19th century -
標題:	Economics in literature. -
標題:	Capitalism in literature. -
標題:	Social problems in literature. -
標題:	Capitalism and literature - History - Great Britain - 19th century. -
標題:	Smith, Adam - 1723-1790 -
標題:	Literature. -
標題:	LITERARY CRITICISM - European -
標題:	LITERARY CRITICISM - General. -
標題:	BUSINESS & ECONOMICS - Economics -
標題:	Smith - Adam - Influence. -
電子資源:	http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230304987An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information
附註:	Includes index.
摘要註:	Some economic ideas are too interesting to be left to economists. This book argues that Adam Smith's metaphor of the 'invisible hand' b6 s in which selfish economic actions are mysteriously transformed into aggregate social benefits in a capitalist economy b6 s implies an entire spatial and temporal system in which the morality of any particular action can only be understood in the context of society as a whole. The 'Invisible Hand' and British Fiction argues that while political economists focused only on the optimistic outcomes of capitalist moral activity, Smith's model of ironic morality also influenced the work of novelists including Austen, Dickens, Martineau, Thackeray, Gaskell, and Eliot. Their realist novels represent the reconciliation between individual ignorance and systemic overview as much less stable than the economic synthesis, using omniscient narrative voices, multiple perspectives, and humor to depict a wide variety of possible outcomes. Smith shares with the realists a vision of modern society that is structured around a fragile trust in the benefits of unintended consequences.
ISBN:	9780230304987electronic bk.
ISBN:	0230304982electronic bk.
內容註:	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.

The 'invisible hand' and British fiction 1818-1860 : Adam Smith, political economy, and the genre of realism
Courtemanche, Eleanor

The 'invisible hand' and British fiction 1818-1860 : Adam Smith, political economy, and the genre of realism / by Eleanor Courtemanche. - New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. - 1 online resource.. - (Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture).
Acknowledgements.
Includes index.Description based on print version record..
Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-244) and index..
ISBN 9780230304987ISBN 0230304982
English fictionEconomics in literature.Capitalism in literature.Social problems in literature.Capitalism and literatureSmith, AdamLiterature.LITERARY CRITICISMLITERARY CRITICISMBUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- History and criticism. -- History -- 1723-1790 -- European -- General. -- Economics -- Great Britain -- 19th century -- 19th century.

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