The Problem of Profit: Finance and Feeling in Eighteenth-Century British Literature

by Michael Genovese

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. In The Problem of Profit, however, Michael Genovese contends that such rejections of profit derive not from a distaste for moneymaking itself but from a distaste for individualism.

In the aftermath of the late seventeenth-century Financial Revolution, literature...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813942896
• ISBN13: 9780813942896
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.5"