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George Eliot and Money: Economics, Ethics and Literature
Dermot Coleman
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Description for George Eliot and Money: Economics, Ethics and Literature
hardcover. Examines George Eliot's understanding of money and economics within the context of the ethics of economics in nineteenth-century England. Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature & Culture. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 151 x 18. Weight in Grams: 474.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
248
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Series
Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature & Culture
Condition
New
Weight
474g
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107057210
SKU
V9781107057210
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About Dermot Coleman
Dermot Coleman gained his doctorate at Exeter University and is a founding partner of SISU Capital, a London-based investment management company. He is a contributor to George Eliot in Context (Cambridge, 2013) and acts as a reviewer for the journal Nineteenth-Century Literature.
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