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.
| ISBN: | 9781349331581 |
| Publication date: | 1st January 2011 |
| Author: | E Courtemanche |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 251 pages |
| Series: | Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture |
| Genres: |
Literature: history and criticism Literary theory Cultural studies Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Fiction Economic theory and philosophy |