Matt Spivey

Re-Reading Economics in Literature

A Capitalist Critical Perspective

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book challenges traditional Marxist readings in literary criticism by employing a free-market lens to analyze important American texts and authors.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 140
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 366g
• ISBN-13: 9781793634474
• ISBN-10: 1793634475
• Artikelnr.: 60064899

Autorenporträt

By Matt Spivey

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: The Austrian School of Economic Literary Criticism
2: The Power of Human Capital in Frederick Douglass's Narrative
3: Gatsby, Daisy, and the Austrian Business Cycle
4: "The Monster's Sick": Rural Economics in The Grapes of Wrath
5: Bigger's World: Urban Economics in Native Son
6: Rage Against the Machine: Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano
Conclusion
Works Cited