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03756aam a2200493 i 4500 001 1CCF264E78F711ECAF30597D2FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220119010213 008 200403t20202020vau b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020015349 020 $a 0813945054 020 $a 9780813945057 020 $a 0813945046 020 $a 9780813945040 035 $a (OCoLC)1150879642 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d YDX $d OCLCF $d YDX $d OCL $d OCLCO $d TWS $d BDX $d LML $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk--- 050 00 $a PR448.I55 $b S43 2020 082 00 $a 820.9/005 $2 23 100 1 $a Sider Jost, Jacob, $d 1983- $e author. 245 10 $a Interest and connection in the eighteenth century : $b Hervey, Johnson, Smith, Equiano / $c Jacob Sider Jost. 264 1 $a Charlottesville : $b University of Virginia Press, $c 2020. 300 $a 194 pages ; $c 24 cm 520 $a 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 emerging discipline of economics made self-interest an axiom of human behavior, and booksellers began for the first time to market books by calling them "interesting." Sider Jost reveals how the multiple meanings of interest allowed writers to make connections--from witty puns to deep structural analogies--among different spheres of eighteenth-century life. Challenging a long and influential tradition that reads the eighteenth century in terms of individualism, atomization, abstraction, and the hegemony of market-based thinking, this innovative study emphasizes the importance of interest as an idiom for thinking about concrete social ties. Sider Jost recovers the small, densely networked world of Hanoverian Britain and its self-consciously inventive language for talking about human connections. -- Publisher description. 520 $a "This book shows how the multiple meanings of "interest" allowed writers in the eighteenth century to make connections among different spheres of life such as finance, economics, politics, psychology, and aesthetics"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-179) and index. 505 0 $a 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. 648 7 $a 1700-1799 $2 fast 650 0 $a English literature $y 18th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Interpersonal relations in literature. 650 0 $a Literature and society $z Great Britain $x History $y 18th century. 650 0 $a Interest (The English word) 650 7 $a Interest (The English word) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst02016938 650 7 $a English literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00911989 650 7 $a Interpersonal relations in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00977446 650 7 $a Literature and society. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01000096 651 7 $a Great Britain. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204623 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $i Online version: $a Sider Jost, Jacob, 1983- $t Interest and connection in the eighteenth century $d Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2020. $z 9780813945064 $w (DLC) 2020015350 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117032921.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=1CCF264E78F711ECAF30597D2FECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search