The problem of profit : finance and feeling in eighteenth-century British literature / Michael Genovese.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Genovese, Michael, 1976- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--18th century--History and critisim.

English literature.

Finance in literature.

Emotions in literature.

Physical Description:

ix, 300 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville ; London : University of Virginia Press, 2019.

Contents:

Introduction: The Problem of Profit

People and Profits

Organic Commerce, Georgic Sympathy

Feeling Paper; or, Giving Credit to Periodicals

The Character of Self-Interest in David Simple and Amelia

Writing Off Sensibility in Hume, Johnson, and Sterne

Coda: Finance without Feeling.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Genovese, Michael, 1976- author. Problem of profit.

ISBN:

9780813942896

0813942896

OCLC:

1091587759