Book contents
- George Eliot and Money
- Series page
- George Eliot and Money
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 ‘A subject of which I know so little’: George Eliot and political economy
- Chapter 2 ‘Intentions of stern thrift’: the formation of a vernacular economics
- Chapter 3 ‘A money-getting profession’: negotiating the commerce of literature
- Chapter 4 Calculating consequences:Felix Holtand the limits of Utilitarianism
- Chapter 5 Testing the Kantian pillars: debt obligations and financial imperatives inMiddlemarch
- Chapter 6 Being good and doing good with money: incorporating the bourgeois virtues
- Chapter 7 The individual and the state: economic sociology inRomola
- Chapter 8 The politics of wealth: new liberalism and the pathologies of economic individualism
- Appendix A George Eliot’s final stock portfolio, 1880
- Appendix B Was Edward Tulliver made bankrupt? An analysis of his financial downfall
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 4 - Calculating consequences:Felix Holtand the limits of Utilitarianism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2014
- George Eliot and Money
- Series page
- George Eliot and Money
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 ‘A subject of which I know so little’: George Eliot and political economy
- Chapter 2 ‘Intentions of stern thrift’: the formation of a vernacular economics
- Chapter 3 ‘A money-getting profession’: negotiating the commerce of literature
- Chapter 4 Calculating consequences:Felix Holtand the limits of Utilitarianism
- Chapter 5 Testing the Kantian pillars: debt obligations and financial imperatives inMiddlemarch
- Chapter 6 Being good and doing good with money: incorporating the bourgeois virtues
- Chapter 7 The individual and the state: economic sociology inRomola
- Chapter 8 The politics of wealth: new liberalism and the pathologies of economic individualism
- Appendix A George Eliot’s final stock portfolio, 1880
- Appendix B Was Edward Tulliver made bankrupt? An analysis of his financial downfall
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- George Eliot and MoneyEconomics, Ethics and Literature, pp. 69 - 86Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014