The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Economics

This book provides a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the interdisciplinary field of literature and economics.

Paul Crosthwaite (Edited by), Peter Knight (Edited by), Nicky Marsh (Edited by)

9781316515754, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 11 August 2022

300 pages
23.5 x 15.7 x 2.6 cm, 0.65 kg

In recent years, money, finance, and the economy have emerged as central topics in literary studies. The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Economics explains the innovative critical methods that scholars have developed to explore the economic concerns of texts ranging from the medieval period to the present. Across seventeen chapters by field-leading experts, the book highlights how, throughout literary history, economic matters have intersected with crucial topics including race, gender, sexuality, nation, empire, and the environment. It also explores how researchers in other disciplines are turning to literature and literary theory for insights into economic questions. Combining thorough historical coverage with attention to emerging issues and approaches, this Companion will appeal to literary scholars and to historians and social scientists interested in the literary and cultural dimensions of economics.

Introduction: the interwovenness of literature and economics Paul Crosthwaite, Peter Knight, Nicky Marsh
Part I. Histories and Critical Traditions: 1. Medieval literature's economic imagination Craig E. Bertolet
2. Early modern literature and monetary debate David Landreth
3. Literary and economic exchanges in the long eighteenth century E. J. Clery
4. Economic literature and economic thought in the nineteenth century Sarah Comyn
5. Women, money, and modernism Nicky Marsh
6. Economic logics and postmodern forms Laura Finch
7. Writing postcolonial capitalism Cheryl Narumi Naruse
Part II: Contemporary Critical Perspectives: 8. The economy of race Michael Germana
9. American literature and the fiction of corporate personhood Peter Knight
10. Political economy, the family, and sexuality David Alderson
11. The literary marketplace and the rise of neoliberalism Paul Crosthwaite
12. World systems and literary studies Stephen Shapiro
13. Crisis, Labor, and the Contemporary Liam Connell
14. Speculative fiction and post-capitalist speculative economies: blueprints and critiques Jo Lindsay Walton
Part III: Interdisciplinary Exchanges: 15. The Keynesian theory of Jamesonian utopia: interdisciplinarity in economics Matt Seybold
16. Reading beyond behavioral economics Gary Saul Morson, Morton Schapiro
17. Fictional expectations and imagination in economics Jens Beckert, Richard Bronk.

Subject Areas: Economic theory & philosophy [KCA], Literary theory [DSA]