About the book
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.
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- ISBN 9781107666597
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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.
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What is George Eliot and Money about?
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.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in George Eliot and Money?
Biography, Literature and Literary studies > Literature: history and criticism > Literary studies: general > Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
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Who is/are the Author/s of the book George Eliot and Money?
Dermot Coleman
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George Eliot and Money is available as hardcover(ISBN 9781107057210) and paperback(ISBN 9781107666597)