The New Economic Criticism: Studies at the Intersection of Literature and Economics (Paperback)

List of figures
List of plates
Notes on the contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Taking account of the New Economic Criticism:
an historical introduction
Mark Osteen
Martha Woodmansee
PART I Language and money
The issue of representation
Marc Shell
``I talk to everybody in their own way'':
Defoe's economies of identity Janet Sorensen
Buying into signs: money and semiosis in
eighteenth-century German language theory Richard T. Gray
Cash, check, or charge? Jean-Joseph Goux
PART II Critical economics
Dominant economic metaphors and the postmodern subversion of the subject
M. Neil Browne J. Kevin Quinn
The toggling sensibility: formalism,
self-consciousness, and the improvement of economics
Howard Horwitz
The ends of economics
John Dupre Regenia Gagnier
PART III Economics of the irrational
A portrait of Homo economicus as a Young Man Susan F. Feiner
Banishing panic: Harriet Martineau and the popularization of political economy
Elaine Freedgood
``Libidinal economics'': Lyotard and accounting for the unaccountable
Brian P. Cooper
Margueritte S. Murphy
PART IV Economic ethics: debts and bondage
Montaigne's Essais: metaphors of capital and exchange
Nancy P. Epstein
Sade's ethical economies
David Martyn
Fugitive properties Samira Kawash
PART V Economies of authorship
``A taste for more'': Trollope's addictive realism
Christina Crosby
Commodifying Tennyson: the historical
transformation of ``brand loyalty'' Gerhard Joseph
Smoking, the hack, and the general equivalent
Linda Austin
PART VI Modernism and markets
Who paid for modernism?
Paul Delany
Rhetoric, science, and economic prophecy:
John Maynard Keynes's correspondence with
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Davis W. Houck
A man is his bonds: The Great Gatsby and
deficit spending
Michael Tratner
PART VII Critical exchanges
Literary/cultural ``Economies,'' economic
discourse, and the question of Marxism Jack Amariglio
David F. Ruccio
Reply to Amariglio and Ruccio's ``Literary/cultural `economies,' economic
discourse, and the question of Marxism'' Regenia Gagnier
John Dupre
Symbolic economics: adventures in the
metaphorical marketplace Amy Koritz
Douglas Koritz
Index