Dermot Coleman

George Eliot and Money

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Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature & Culture
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 360g
• ISBN-13: 9781107666597
• ISBN-10: 1107666597
• Artikelnr.: 45156795

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.