The ‘Invisible Hand’ and British Fiction, 1818–1860
Adam Smith, Political Economy, and the Genre of Realism
Part of the Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture book series (PNWC)
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Introduction
The 'invisible hand', Adam Smith's metaphor for the morality of capitalism, is explored in this text as being far more subtle and intricate than is usually understood, with many British realist fiction writers (Austen, Dickens, Gaskell, Eliot) having absorbed his model of ironic causality in complex societies and turned it to their own purposes.
Keywords
Adam Smith Charles Dickens fiction George Eliot Jane Austen Narrative novel political economy realism technology
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- DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230304987
- Copyright Information Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2011
- Publisher Name Palgrave Macmillan, London
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- Print ISBN 978-1-349-33158-1
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