Mark Osteen / Martha Woodmansee (eds.)

The New Economic Criticism

Studies at the interface of literature and economics
Herausgeber: Osteen, Mark; Woodmansee, Martha

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection brings together twenty-seven essays by influential literary and cultural historians, as well as representatives of the vanguard of postmodernist economics. Contributors include: Jean-Joseph Goux, Marc Shell. 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 456
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. März 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 656g
• ISBN-13: 9780415149457
• ISBN-10: 0415149452
• Artikelnr.: 21450924

Autorenporträt

Martha Woodmansee, Mark Osteen

Inhaltsangabe

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