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Informationen zum Autor By Cecil E. Bohanon and Michelle Albert Vachris Klappentext Pride and Profit explores the ways in which Jane Austen's novels interact with the ideas of economist Adam Smith. Bohanon and Vachris show how Smithian perspectives on virtue are depicted in Austen's novels and how Smith's and Austen's perspectives reflect and define the bourgeois culture of the Enlightenment and industrial revolution. Zusammenfassung Pride and Profit explores the ways in which Jane Austen’s novels interact with the ideas of economist Adam Smith. Bohanon and Vachris show how Smithian perspectives on virtue are depicted in Austen’s novels and how Smith’s and Austen’s perspectives reflect and define the bourgeois culture of the Enlightenment and industrial revolution. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Introduction: Why Jane Austen and Adam Smith?2 A General Introduction to Smith's Moral Theory3 Virtues and Vices in Smith4 Self-Command in Sense and Sensibility5 Prudence, Benevolence, and Justice in Mansfield Park6 Vanity in Persuasion7 Pride in Pride and Prejudice8 Greed and Promises in Northanger Abbey9 Man of System and Impartial Spectator in Emma10 Land Rents, Income, and Entails11 Representation of Business in Smith and Austen: Adopting the Bourgeois Virtues12 Social Rank in Smith and Austen13 Reflections on the Intersection between Jane Austen and Adam Smith and its Relevance for Today

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• Authors: Cecil E Bohanon, Cecil E. Bohanon, Bohanon Cecil E., Michelle Albert Vachris, Vachris Michelle Albert
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.02.2016
• EAN: 9780739191835
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-9183-5
• Series: Capitalist Thought: Studies in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics; Capitalist Thought: Studies in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous; Business & Economics / General, Economics, finance, business & management, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Economic theory & philosophy