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The problem of profit : finance and feeling in eighteenth-century British literature

Title
The problem of profit : finance and feeling in eighteenth-century British literature / Michael Genovese.
Author
Genovese, Michael, 1976-
Publication
  • Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019.
  • ©2019

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Description
ix, 300 pages; 25 cm
Subject
  • 1700-1799
  • English literature > 18th century > History and criticsim
  • Finance in literature
  • Emotions in literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-279) and index.
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.
Call Number
JFE 20-3237
ISBN
  • 9780813942896
  • 0813942896
  • 9780813942902 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
  • 2019001718
  • 40029555688
OCLC
1091587759
Author
Genovese, Michael, 1976- author.
Title
The problem of profit : finance and feeling in eighteenth-century British literature / Michael Genovese.
Publisher
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019.
Copyright Date
©2019
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-279) and index.
Chronological Term
1700-1799
Other Form:
Online version: Genovese, Michael, 1976- author. Problem of profit. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019. 9780813942902 (DLC) 2019980855
Other Standard Identifier
40029555688
Research Call Number
JFE 20-3237
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