Unlike other Victorian novelists George Eliot rarely incorporated stock market speculation and fraud into her plots, but meditations on money, finance and economics, in relation both to individual ethics and to wider social implications, infuse her novels. This volume examines Eliot's understan...

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1. Verfasser:	Coleman, Dermot (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2014
Schriftenreihe:	Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture 90
Schlagworte:	Eliot, George / 1819-1880 / Knowledge / Economics Eliot, George > 1819-1880 Wirtschaft Wissen Money in literature Ethics in literature Geld > Motiv
Online-Zugang:	DE-12 DE-473 URL des Erstveröffentlichers
Zusammenfassung:	Unlike other Victorian novelists George Eliot rarely incorporated stock market speculation and fraud into her plots, but meditations on money, finance and economics, in relation both to individual ethics and to wider social implications, infuse her novels. This volume examines Eliot's understanding of money and economics, its bearing on her moral and political thought, and the ways in which she incorporated that thought into her novels. It offers a detailed account of Eliot's intellectual engagements with political economy, utilitarianism, and the new liberalism of the 1870s, and also her practical dealings with money through her management of household and business finances and, in later years, her considerable investments in stocks and shares. In a wider context, it presents a detailed study of the ethics of economics in nineteenth-century England, tracing the often uncomfortable relationship between morality and economic utility experienced by intellectuals of the period
Beschreibung:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Beschreibung:	1 online resource (vii, 226 pages)
ISBN:	9781107298040
DOI:	10.1017/CBO9781107298040