The New Economic Criticism: Studies at the interface of literature and economics

ISBN-13: 9780415149457 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 456 str.

Mark Osteen; Martha Woodmansee

Opis

Economic criticism brings together economics and literary scholarship, demonstrating 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 27 essays by influential literary and cultural historians, as well as representatives of the vanguard of postmodernist economics. Contributors include: William Milberg, Deirdre McCloskey, Janet Sorenson, Jean-Joseph Goux, Marc Shell. The text should appeal to economists and literary theorists with an interest beyond the narrower confines of their subject.

Spis treści

Introduction 1 Taking account of the New Economic Criticism: an historical Introduction PART I Language and money 2 The issue of representation 3 “I talk to everybody in their own way”: Defoe’s economies of identity 4 Buying into signs: money and semiosis in eighteenth-century German language theory 5 Cash, check, or charge? PART II Critical economics 6 Dominant economic metaphors and the postmodern subversion of the Subject 7 The toggling sensibility: formalism, self-consciousness, and the improvement of economics 8 The ends of economics PART III Economics of the irrational 9 A portrait of Homo economicus as a Young Man 10 Banishing panic: Harriet Martineau and the popularization of political Economy 11 “Libidinal economics”: Lyotard and accounting for the unaccountable PART IV Economic ethics: debts and bondage 12 Montaigne’s Essais: metaphors of capital and exchange 13 Sade’s ethical economies 14 Fugitive properties PART V Economies of authorship 15 “A taste for more”: Trollope’s addictive realism 16 Commodifying Tennyson: the historical transformation of “brand loyalty” 17 Smoking, the hack, and the general equivalent PART VI Modernism and markets 18 Who paid for modernism? 19 Rhetoric, science, and economic prophecy: John Maynard Keynes’s correspondence with Franklin D.Roosevelt 20 A man is his bonds: The Great Gatsby and deficit spending PART VII Critical exchanges 21 Literary/cultural “Economies,” economic discourse, and the question of Marxism 22 Reply to Amariglio and Ruccio’s “Literary/cultural ‘economies,’ economic discourse, and the question of Marxism” 23 Symbolic economics: adventures in the metaphorical marketplace

O autorze

Martha Woodmansee, Mark Osteen