Focusing on the transition from political economy to economics, this volume seeks to restore social content to economic abstractions through readings of nineteenth-century British and American literature. The essays gathered here, by new as well as established scholars of literature and economics, link important nineteenth-century texts and histories with present-day issues such as exploitation, income inequality, globalization, energy consumption, property ownership and rent, human capital, corporate power, and environmental degradation. Organized according to key concepts for future research, the collection has a clear interdisciplinary, humanities approach and international reach.
Author(s): Elaine Hadley, Audrey Jaffe, Sarah Winter
Series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Culture and Economics
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 289
Tags: Nineteenth-Century Literature, Political Economy, Economics
Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii
Introduction: Reclaiming the Social (Elaine Hadley, Audrey Jaffe, Sarah Winter)....Pages 1-25
Front Matter ....Pages 27-27
Human Capital (Elaine Hadley)....Pages 29-57
Exploitation (Zachary Samalin)....Pages 59-83
Slavery (Gordon Bigelow)....Pages 85-105
Front Matter ....Pages 107-107
Expansion (Ayşe Çelikkol)....Pages 109-128
Sustainability (Deanna K. Kreisel)....Pages 129-149
Front Matter ....Pages 151-151
Rent (Audrey Jaffe)....Pages 153-172
Corporation (Clare V. Eby)....Pages 173-194
Front Matter ....Pages 195-195
Choice (Amanpal Garcha)....Pages 197-218
Global Inequality (Mukti Lakhi Mangharam)....Pages 219-242
Equity (Sarah Winter)....Pages 243-265
Back Matter ....Pages 267-287
