书目名称 | Political Economy and the Novel |
副标题 | A Literary History o |
编辑 | Sarah Comyn |
视频video | http://file.papertrans.cn/751/750111/750111.mp4 |
概述 | Examines the history of the novel and the role economics has played.Contributes to new economic criticism.Examines canonical novels from Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Ayn Rand, and Don DeLillo |
丛书名称 | Palgrave Studies in Literature, Culture and Economics |
图书封面 |  |
描述 | .Political Economy and the Novel: A Literary History of ‘Homo Economicus’. provides a transhistorical account of .homo economicus. (economic man), demonstrating this figure’s significance to economic theory and the Anglo-American novel over a 250-year period. Beginning with Adam Smith’s seminal texts –. Theory of Moral Sentiments. and .The Wealth of Nations. – and Henry Fielding’s .A History of Tom Jones., this book combines the methodologies of new historicism and new economic criticism to investigate the evolution of the .homo economicus. model as it traverses through Ricardian economics and Jane Austen’s .Sanditon.; J. S. Mill and Charles Dickens’ engagement with mid-Victorian dualities; Keynesianism and .Mrs Dalloway.’s exploration of post-war consumer impulses; the a/moralistic discourses of Friedrich von Hayek, and Ayn Rand’s .Atlas Shrugged.; and finally the virtual crises of the twenty-first century financial market and DonDeLillo’s .Cosmopolis.. Through its sustained comparative analysis of literary and economic discourses, this book transforms our understanding of the genre of the novel and offers critical new understandings of literary value, cultural capital and the mor |
出版日期 | Book 2018 |
关键词 | political economic writings; literary networks; homo economicus; American novels; American literature; no |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94325-1 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-06834-9 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-94325-1Series ISSN 2946-5397 Series E-ISSN 2946-5400 |
issn_series | 2946-5397 |
copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |