George Eliot and Money: Economics, Ethics and Literature

ISBN-13: 9781107666597 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 242 str.

Dermot Coleman

Opis

This book examines George Eliot's understanding of money and economics within the context of the ethics of economics in nineteenth-century England.

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. 'A subject of which I know so little': George Eliot and political economy; 2. 'Intentions of stern thrift': the formation of a vernacular economics; 3. 'A money-getting profession': negotiating the commerce of literature; 4. Calculating consequences: Felix Holt and the limits of utilitarianism; 5. Testing the Kantian pillars: debt obligations and financial imperatives in Middlemarch; 6. Being good and doing good with money: incorporating the bourgeois virtues; 7. The individual and the State: economic sociology in Romola; 8. The politics of wealth: new liberalism and the pathologies of economic individualism; Appendix A. George Eliot's final stock portfolio, 1880; Appendix B. Was Edward Tulliver made bankrupt? An analysis of his financial downfall; Bibliography.