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Misers - British Responses to Extreme Saving, 1700-1860 (Hardcover)
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Misers - British Responses to Extreme Saving, 1700-1860 (Hardcover)
Series: Political Economies of Capitalism, 1600-1850
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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 and philosophers; and
profiled in obituaries and biographies-to explore how British
attitudes about saving money shifted between 1700 and 1860. As
opposed to the century before, the nineteenth century witnessed a
new appreciation for misers, as economists credited them with
adding to the nation's stock of capital and novelists newly
imagined their capacity to empathize with fellow human beings.
These characters shared the spotlight with real people who
posthumously donned that label, populating into a cottage industry
of miser biographies by the 1850s. By the time A Christmas Carol
appeared in 1843, many Victorians had come to embrace misers as
links that connected one generation's extreme saving with the next
generation's virtuous spending. With a broad chronological period,
this volume is useful for students and scholars interested in
representation of misers in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century
Britain.
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