by Cecil E. Bohanon (Author), Michelle Albert Vachris (Author)

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

Author Biography

Cecil E. Bohanon is professor of economics at Ball State University. Michelle Albert Vachris is professor of economics at Christopher Newport University.