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Interest and connection in the eighteenth century : Hervey, Johnson, Smith, Equiano

Author: Jacob Sider Jost
Publisher: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2020. ©2020
Edition/Format:   Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Can a single word explain the world? In the British eighteenth century, interest comes close: it lies at the foundation of the period's thinking about finance, economics, politics, psychology, and aesthetics. Interest and Connection in the Eighteenth Century provides the first comprehensive account of interest in an era when a growing national debt created a new class of rentiers who lived off of interest, the
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Genre/Form: Criticism, interpretation, etc
History
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Sider Jost, Jacob, 1983-
Interest and connection in the eighteenth century
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2020.
(DLC) 2020015350
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Jacob Sider Jost
ISBN: 9780813945040 0813945046 9780813945057 0813945054
OCLC Number: 1150879642
Description: 194 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents: The Whig Theory of Mind: Influence and Interpretation in Lord Hervey --
The Variety of Human Wishes --
Professor Smith --
Interesting Narratives --
Conclusion: Reigning Words and Glorious Revolutions.
Responsibility: Jacob Sider Jost.

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Challenging a long tradition that reads the eighteenth century in terms of individualism, atomization, abstraction, and the hegemony of market-based thinking, this study emphasizes the importance of  Read more...

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