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The 'invisible hand' and British fiction 1818-1860Adam Smith, political economy, and the genre of realism /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The 'invisible hand' and British fiction 1818-1860by Eleanor Courtemanche.
Reminder of title:	Adam Smith, political economy, and the genre of realism /
Author:	Courtemanche, Eleanor,
Published:	New York :Palgrave Macmillan,2011.
Description:	1 online resource.
Notes:	Includes index.
Subject:	English fictionHistory and criticism.19th century
Online resource:	An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information
ISBN:	9780230304987 (electronic bk.)

The 'invisible hand' and British fiction 1818-1860Adam Smith, political economy, and the genre of realism /
Courtemanche, Eleanor,1968-

The 'invisible hand' and British fiction 1818-1860Adam Smith, political economy, and the genre of realism /[electronic resource] :by Eleanor Courtemanche. - New York :Palgrave Macmillan,2011. - 1 online resource. - Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture. - Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture..

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-244) and index.

Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Capitalist Moral Philosophy, Narrative Technology, and the Bounded Nation-State -- PART I: READING ADAM SMITH -- Imaginary Vantage Points: The Invisible Hand and the Rise of Political Economy -- PART II: EARLY NINETEENTH-CENTURY NOVELS AND INVISIBLE HAND SOCIAL THEORY -- Omniscient Narrators and the Return of the Gothic in Northanger Abbey and Bleak House -- Providential Endings: Martineau, Dickens, and the Didactic Task of Political Economy -- Ripple Effects and the Fog of War in Vanity Fair� -- Inappropriate Sympathies in Gaskell and Eliot -- Conclusion: Realist Capitalism, Gothic Capitalism -- Bibliography -- Index.

Some economic ideas are too interesting to be left to economists. This book argues that Adam Smith's metaphor of the 'invisible hand' b6 s in which selfish economic actions are mysteriously transformed into aggregate social benefits in a capitalist economy b6 s implies an entire spatial and temporal system in which the morality of any particular action can only be understood in the context of society as a whole. The 'Invisible Hand' and British Fiction argues that while political economists focused only on the optimistic outcomes of capitalist moral activity, Smith's model of ironic morality also influenced the work of novelists including Austen, Dickens, Martineau, Thackeray, Gaskell, and Eliot. Their realist novels represent the reconciliation between individual ignorance and systemic overview as much less stable than the economic synthesis, using omniscient narrative voices, multiple perspectives, and humor to depict a wide variety of possible outcomes. Smith shares with the realists a vision of modern society that is structured around a fragile trust in the benefits of unintended consequences.

ISBN: 9780230304987 (electronic bk.)

Source: 491979Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.comSubjects--Personal Names:

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LC Class. No.: PR868.E37 / C68 2011

Dewey Class. No.: 820.9/355

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