New Economic Criticism Studies at the Interface of Literature and Economics

Name: New Economic Criticism Studies at the Interface of Literature and Economics
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ISBN: 9780415149440

ISBN-10: 0415149444

ISBN-13: 9780415149440

Edition: 1999

Authors: Mark Osteen, Martha Woodmansee

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Bringing together economics and literary scholarship, the new economic criticism demonstrates that literary and theoretical texts may be fruitfully examined for their economic form, content and contexts and that economic theories and texts may also be illuminated by scrutinizing their tropes, narrative devices and ideologies. This collection brings together twenty-seven essays by influential literary and cultural historians, as well as representatives of the vanguard of postmodernist economics. This is a pathbreaking work which develops a new form of economic analysis. It will appeal to economists and literary theorists with an interest beyond the narrower confines of their subject.

Book details

List price: $240.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 5/12/1999
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 464
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English



List of figures


List of plates


Notes on the contributors


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Taking account of the New Economic Criticism: an historical introduction




Language and money



The issue of representation




"I talk to everybody in their own way": Defoe's economies of identity




Buying into signs: money and semiosis in eighteenth-century German language theory




Cash, check, or charge?




Critical economics



Dominant economic metaphors and the postmodern subversion of the subject




The toggling sensibility: formalism, self-consciousness, and the improvement of economics




The ends of economics




Economics of the irrational



A portrait of Homo economicus as a Young Man




Banishing panic: Harriet Martineau and the popularization of political economy




"Libidinal economics": Lyotard and accounting for the unaccountable




Economic ethics: debts and bondage



Montaigne's Essais: metaphors of capital and exchange




Sade's ethical economies




Fugitive properties




Economies of authorship



"A taste for more": Trollope's addictive realism




Commodifying Tennyson: the historical transformation of "brand loyalty"




Smoking, the hack, and the general equivalent




Modernism and markets



Who paid for modernism?




Rhetoric, science, and economic prophecy: John Maynard Keynes's correspondence with Franklin D. Roosevelt




A man is his bonds: The Great Gatsby and deficit spending




Critical exchanges



Literary/cultural "Economies," economic discourse, and the question of Marxism




Reply to Amariglio and Ruccio's "Literary/cultural 'economies,' economic discourse, and the question of Marxism"




Symbolic economics: adventures in the metaphorical marketplace



Index