Free shipping on all orders over $79* Limited Time Only
Track My Order
Help Centre
Likes
My Wish ListsLogin / Join
Booktopia
Australia's local bookstore
Get Free Shipping on orders over $79
Misers : British Responses to Extreme Saving, 1700-1860 - Timothy Alborn

Misers

British Responses to Extreme Saving, 1700-1860

By: Timothy Alborn

eText | 5 May 2022 | Edition Number 1

At a Glance

eText

$89.09

or 4 interest-free payments of $22.27 with

 or 

Instant online reading in your Booktopia eTextbook Library *

Why choose an eTextbook?

Instant Access *

Purchase and read your book immediately

Read Aloud

Listen and follow along as Bookshelf reads to you

Study Tools

Built-in study tools like highlights and more

* eTextbooks are not downloadable to your eReader or an app and can be accessed via web browsers only. You must be connected to the internet and have no technical issues with your device or browser that could prevent the eTextbook from operating.

This volumeuses 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.

on
Desktop
Tablet
Mobile

You Can Find This eBook In

Non-FictionHistoryRegional & National HistoryEuropean HistoryBritish & Irish HistoryGeneral & World HistorySpecific Events & Topics in HistorySocial & Cultural HistoryEconomicsEconomic HistoryLiterature, Poetry & PlaysHistory & Criticism of Literature
General Literary StudiesLiterary Studies from 1500 to 1800

Other Editions and Formats

Paperback

Published: 29th January 2024

View Product

More in British & Irish History

Life in a Medieval Castle : Medieval Life - Joseph Gies

eBOOK

Life in a Medieval Castle

Medieval Life

eBook

RRP $25.99

$20.99

19%
OFF
The Truest Heart - Samantha James

eBOOK

The Truest Heart

eBook

$3.99

Captain James Cook - Rob Mundle

eBOOK

Captain James Cook

eBook

$10.99

This product is categorised by