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'A parcel of heart': the business of love in Peregrine Pickle

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McCloskey (2010) has linked modern economic growth with a change in rhetoric about the bourgeoisie and virtues such as prudence. She locates this shift in the 17th and 18th centuries in northern Europe. I build on that argument in analysing a unique novel published on the cusp of the industrial revolution - Tobias Smollett's The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle. In which Are Included, Memoirs of a Lady of Quality (2014) - which focuses on two representatives of the rising bourgeoisie: a real woman (Lady Vane) and her fictional counterpart, Peregrine. I argue that, through tracing their adventures, this work illuminates the transition in rhetoric about prudence and the bourgeoisie: it does not simply depict the bourgeoisie as dignified but shows how people negotiated the meanings of key terms such as 'gentleman', 'prudence', 'love', and 'contract'.

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  • Caroline Breashears, 2016. "'A parcel of heart': the business of love in Peregrine Pickle," International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 7(2), pages 198-212.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijplur:v:7:y:2016:i:2:p:198-212
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