EAN: 9783319943244

POLITICAL ECONOMY AND THE NOVEL - SARAH COMYN G...

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 DeLillös 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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