Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture: Adam Smith, Political Economy, and the Genre of Realism

Courtemanche, E.

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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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2011-04-12

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780230290785

DOI: 10.1057/9780230304987

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 251