The New Economic Criticism: Studies at the interface of literature and economics (Economics as Social Theory) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415149444 ISBN 13: 9780415149440

Publisher: Routledge, 1999

Synopsis

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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This collection explores the myriad ways in which economics and literature are mutually illuminating. Several essays employ economic principles and paradigms to offer striking new readings of literary and theoretical texts. These both extend current trends in literary scholarship towards historically informed methods, and interrogate those methods by exposing the material conditions under which texts are produced. Other essays present new work by economists schooled in feminist, literary and cultural theory, who suggest alternatives to the constraining models that dominate neoclassicalism. The volume thus demonstrates how economic criticism can both fruitfully examine texts for their economic form, content, and contexts, and also furnish new perspectives on cultural and economic history. Covering a wide range of topics, this volume features essays by influential literary and cultural historians such as Marc Shell, Jean-Joseph Goux, and Regenia Gagnier, along with contributions by representatives of the vanguard of postmodern economics such as M. Neil Browne, Susan Feiner, Jack Amariglio and David Ruccio.

It closes with a set of critical exchanges that outline further challenges for economic criticism. Jack Amariglio, Merrimack College, Linda Austin, Oklahoma State University, John R Barberet, Case Western, M. Neil Browne, Bowling Green State University, Brian Cooper/

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0415149444
• ISBN 13: 9780415149440
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 464
• Editor: Woodmansee Martha, Osteen Mark