George Eliot and Money: Economics, Ethics and Literature

by Dermot Coleman

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107057213
• ISBN13: 9781107057210
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"