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Political economy and the novel = a literary history of "homo economicus" /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Political economy and the novel/ by Sarah Comyn.
Reminder of title:	a literary history of "homo economicus" /
Author:	Comyn, Sarah.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing : : 2018.,
Description:	xii, 283 p. :ill., digital ; : 24 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Economics in literature. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94325-1
ISBN:	9783319943251

Political economy and the novel = a literary history of "homo economicus" /
Comyn, Sarah.

Political economy and the novela literary history of "homo economicus" /[electronic resource] :by Sarah Comyn. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2018. - xii, 283 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Palgrave studies in literature, culture and economics. - Palgrave studies in literature, culture and economics..

1. Introduction -- 2. Chapter Two: The Contested Birth of Homo Economicus -- 3. Chapter Three: The Speculative World of Sandition -- 4. Chapter Four: A Marginal Life -- 5. Chapter Five: The Compulsion to Consume -- 6. Chapter Six: The Neoliberal Ideologue -- 7. Chapter Seven: The Asymmetric Prostate -- 8. Coda.

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 Don DeLillo'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 moral foundations of political economy.

ISBN: 9783319943251

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-94325-1doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

556936
Economics in literature.

LC Class. No.: PR149.E29 / C669 2018

Dewey Class. No.: 823.0093553

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