From Political Economy to Economics Through Nineteenth-Century Literature: Reclaiming the Social

ISBN-13: 9783030241575 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 287 str.

Elaine Hadley; Audrey Jaffe; Sarah Winter

Recenzje

"This fascinating and useful volume of essays marks a new stage in the study of political economy from the standpoint of Victorian studies. ... this volume is a welcome opening in Victorian studies to some non-British and even radical approaches to economic history. ... Though unified by their engagement with nineteenth-century political economy, the essays in this volume splinter out in many directions, each engaging with a new set of contemporary theorists and problems." (Eleanor Courtemanche, Victorian Studies, Vol. 64 (3), 2022)

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Introduction 

Reclaiming the Social, Elaine Hadley, Audrey Jaffe, and Sarah Winter  

I. Labor 

Chapter 2: Human Capital 

Becker the Obscure: Human Capital Theory, Victorian Liberalisms, and the Future of Higher Education, Elaine Hadley

Chapter 3: Exploitation 

On the Use and Abuse of the Nineteenth Century: Towards a Genealogy of Exploitation, Zachary Samalin

Chapter 4: Slavery 

Forgetting Cairnes: The Slave Power and the Political Economy of Racism, Gordon Bigelow

 

II. Growth 

Chapter 5: Expansion 

Expansion in the Fossil Economy and Craik’s John Halifax, Gentleman, Ayşe Çelikkol

Chapter 6: Sustainability 

Sustainability & Its Discontents: The View from the Nineteenth Century, Deanna K. Kreisel

 

III. Property 

Chapter 7: Rent 

“When a House is So Much More”: Character, Tenancy, and Property in Victorian Fiction, Audrey Jaffe

Chapter 8: Corporation 

The Zero-Sum Game of Corporate Personhood, Clare Eby

IV. Value

Chapter 9: Choice 

Narrating Choice in Later Nineteenth-Century Novels and Neoclassical Economics, 

Amanpal Garcha

Chapter 10: Global Inequality 

Documenting Globalization in Rural India: The Conflation of the “Freedom of the Market” with The “Freedom of the Person” in The New York Times, Mukti Lakhi Mangharam

Chapter 11: Equity 

Henry Mayhew and Thomas Piketty on Equity and Inequality, Sarah Winter

O autorze

Elaine Hadley is Professor of English and Gender Studies at the University of Chicago, USA.

Audrey Jaffe is Professor of English at the University of Toronto, Canada.

Sarah Winter is Professor of English and Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA.

Blurb

Focusing on the transition from political economy to economics, this volume seeks to restore social content to economic abstractions through readings of nineteenth-century British and American literature. The essays gathered here, by new as well as established scholars of literature and economics, link important nineteenth-century texts and histories with present-day issues such as exploitation, income inequality, globalization, energy consumption, property ownership and rent, human capital, corporate power, and environmental degradation. Organized according to key concepts for future research, the collection has a clear interdisciplinary, humanities approach and international reach.  These diverse essays will interest students and scholars in literature, history, political science, economics, sociology, law, and cultural studies, in addition to readers generally interested in the Victorian period.