(Hardback)

Pride and Profit explores the ways in which Jane Austens novels interact with the ideas of economist Adam Smith. Bohanon and Vachris show how Smithian perspectives on virtue are depicted in Austens novels and how Smiths and Austens perspectives reflect and define the bourgeois culture of the Enlightenment and industrial revolution.

(Paperback)

Pride and Profit explores the ways in which Jane Austens novels interact with the ideas of economist Adam Smith. Bohanon and Vachris show how Smithian perspectives on virtue are depicted in Austens novels and how Smiths and Austens perspectives reflect and define the bourgeois culture of the Enlightenment and industrial revolution.