The 'Invisible Hand' and British Fiction, 1818-1860 Adam Smith, Political Economy, and the Genre of Realism
Description
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.
Keywords
Literary CriticismEuropeanSemiotics & TheorySocial ScienceModern19th CenturyFictionBusiness & EconomicsEconometricsLanguage Arts & DisciplinesLinguisticsAnthropologyCultural & SocialEconomicsTheory
2011Book
Author(s)Eleanor Courtemanche
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK
ISBN9780230290785
LanguageEnglish
