The Problem of Profit: Finance and Feeling in Eighteenth-Century British Literature - Michael Genovese - Books - University of Virginia Press - 9780813942896 - November 6, 2019
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The Problem of Profit: Finance and Feeling in Eighteenth-Century British Literature


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Attacks against the pursuit of profit in eighteenth-century Britain have been largely read as reactions against market activity in general or as critiques of financial innovation. Michael Genovese, however, contends that such rejections of profit derive not from a distaste for moneymaking itself but from a distaste for individualism.


296 pages, 6 black & white illustrations

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released November 6, 2019
ISBN13 9780813942896
Publishers University of Virginia Press
Pages 296
Dimensions 150 × 220 × 20 mm   ·   589 g

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