Political Economy and the Novel [electronic resource] : a Literary History of "Homo Economicus" / by Sarah Comyn.

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Political Economy and the Novel [electronic resource] : a Literary History of "Homo Economicus" / by Sarah Comyn.

9783319943251
3319943251
9783319943244 (print)
3319943243
9783319943268 (print)
331994326X
9783030068349 (print)
303006834X

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

English

1 online resource (XII, 283 pages) : online resource.

10.1007/978-3-319-94325-1 doi

PN45-PN57

801

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.

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