The Routledge Companion to Literature and Economics

ISBN-13: 9781032178561 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 440 str.

Matt Seybold; Michelle Chihara

Opis

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Economics draws together over 45 critics and offers both an introduction and a springboard to this sometimes complex but highly relevant field.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  PART I: Critical traditions  2. What is literary knowledge of economy?  3. The politics of form and poetics of identity in postwar American poetry  4. Rhetorical economics  5. Labor without value, language at a price: toward a narrative poetics for the financial turn  PART II: Histories  6. Premodern economics: ideas, literature, and contexts  7. John Smith and the virus of trade  8. Gothic economies: capitalism and vampirism  9. The print revolution and paper money  10. The economics of American literary realism  11. Women’s writing and the mainstreaming of political economy  12. Modernism and macroeconomics  13. American modernism and the crash of 1929  14. Friedrich Hayek and the pleasures of liberal thought of modern Japan  15. Free trade masculinity and the literature of NAFTA  PART III: Principles  16. Asymmetric information  17. Black markets  18. Classical economics  19. Consumption: cultures of crisis. overprotection, and twenty-first-century literature  20. Corporate space  21. Currency 22. Literature and energy  23. Financialisation  24. Globalisation: everything in chains; the aesthetics of global capitalism  25. Inflation  26. Keynes and Keynesianism  27. Neoclassical economics  28. Neoliberalism  29. Real-estate confessions: moral realism in a risk economy  30. Reproduction  31. Secular stagnation and the discourse of reproductive limit  32. Social want  33. Speculation  PART IV: Contemporary culture  34. "The real home of capitalism": The AOL Time Warner merger and capital flight  35.. Hamilton, credit, and American enterprise  36. Global finance and scale: literary form and economics in Mohsin Hamid's How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia  37. Behavioral economics and genre  38. Serialization in the age of finance capitalism

O autorze

Matt Seybold is an Assistant Professor of American Literature and Mark Twain Studies at Elmira College, USA. He publishes on American literature and economics.

Michelle Chihara is an Assistant Professor of English at Whittier College, USA, as well as Section Editor of the Economics and Finance section of the Los Angeles Review of Books. She publishes both fiction and nonfiction, with emphasis on economics, finance, and contemporary culture.