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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction: Capitalist Moral Philosophy, Narrative Technology, and the Boundaries of the Nation-State
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Reading Adam Smith
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Early Nineteenth-Century Novels and Invisible Hand Social Theory
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Conclusion: Realist Capitalism, Gothic Capitalism
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Back Matter
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'This book makes a strong case for the humanities through its interdisciplinary study of political economy in the nineteenth century...Courtemanche's theoretical framework is elegant and compelling. With the aid of Smith's metaphor, she contraposes a worm's-eye view with a bird's-eye view, and then uses this contraposed pair to represent the worker and the landowner, the economist and the literary philosopher, the literary character and the narrator.' - Leeann Hunter, New Books on Literature 19
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Book Title: The 'Invisible Hand' and British Fiction, 1818-1860
Book Subtitle: Adam Smith, Political Economy, and the Genre of Realism
Authors: Eleanor Courtemanche
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230304987
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-29078-5Published: 12 April 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-33158-1Published: 01 January 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-30498-7Published: 12 April 2011
Series ISSN: 2634-6494
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6508
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 251
Topics: British and Irish Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Fiction, Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods