George Eliot and Money: Economics, Ethics and Literature

作者: Dermot Coleman

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关键词: IndividualismState (polity)BourgeoisieLiberalismPoliticsSubject (philosophy)Economic sociologySociologyPolitical economyUtilitarianismLaw and economics

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