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

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

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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ISBN: 9780230290785
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Author: Eleanor Courtemanche
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan an imprint of Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 251 pages
Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
Genres: Literature: history and criticism
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
Cultural studies
Economic theory and philosophy
Literary theory
Fiction

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