Political Economy and the Novel : A Literary History of "Homo Economicus" /: A Literary History of "Homo Economicus". (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Sarah Comyn.
• Authors: Comyn, Sarah
• Contents: 1. Introduction Value and Representation The Character of Homo Economicus The Empathic Imagination The Narrative of Homo Economicus2. Chapter Two: The Contested Birth of Homo Economicus The Crisis of Value and the Literary Discourse The Critical Enclosure of the Text The Division of Labour and Speculative Rhetoric Self-improvement and the Impartial Spectator3. Chapter Three: The Speculative World of Sandition The Text and the Textual Place Imagined Economies, Imagined Disorders Ricardo's Theory of Rent and Modern Sandition The Comparative Value of Austen and Ricardo4. Chapter Four:A Marginal Life The Optative Mood: Residues of a Past Life A Parvenu Civilisation The Spectral Presence ofHomo Economicus5. Chapter Five: The Compulsion to Consume The Specificity of the General Historians of Genre Fragments of Empire The (In)consumable and Inconsolable6. Chapter Six: The Neoliberal Ideologue The Political Backdrop to an Economic Revolution Moral Equilibrium Contemporary Randian Impulses7. Chapter Seven: The Asymmetric Prostate The Ascent of Information Technology Zeptoseconds and Reading Economic Data Value and Authenticity8. Coda.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2018
• Copyright Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (283 pages)
• Subjects: Literature; Literary Criticism -- General; Political Science -- Public Policy -- Economic Policy; Literature: history & criticism; Political economy; Literature-Philosophy; Literature-History and criticism; Economic policy; Literary Criticism -- Semiotics & Theory; Literary theory
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319943251
• Related ISBNs: 9783319943244
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