Misers: British Responses to Extreme Saving, 1700-1860

by Timothy Alborn

This volume uses the extreme case of misers to examine interlocking categories that undergirded the emergence of modern British society, including new perspectives on charity, morality, and marriage; new representations of passion and sympathy; and new modes of saving, spending, and investment.

Misers

surveys this class of people-as invented and interpreted in sermons, poems, novels, and plays; analyzed by economists...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367524627
• ISBN13: 9780367524623
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"