[图书][B] The Problem of Profit: Finance and Feeling in Eighteenth-Century British Literature

M Genovese - 2019 - books.google.com
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 …

Living at This Hour: Jonathan Swift, Edward Said, and the Profession of Literature

H Deutsch - boundary 2: an international journal of literature …, 2019 - read.dukeupress.edu
This essay examines the living affinity between two complex and charismatic writers,
Jonathan Swift and Edward Said, in order to revitalize our understandings of both. Said's …

" Chequer Works of Providence": Skeptical Providentialism in Daniel Defoe's Fiction

BC Donnelly - Philosophy and Literature, 2019 - muse.jhu.edu
Daniel Defoe's fiction has never fit neatly into theories of the novel that rely upon
Enlightenment ideals of secularization and development, largely because of his novels' …