1st Edition

A Coincidence of Wants The Novel and Neoclassical Economics

By Charles Lewis Copyright 2000
166 Pages
by Routledge

166 Pages
by Routledge

166 Pages
by Routledge

This interdisciplinary study examines four major British and American novels in view of key concepts from the mainstream tradition of neoclassical economics. Studies of the novel widely address its connections to capitalism, yet literary critics and theorists rarely make reference to neoclassical perspectives, which have held a key position in the formal analysis of the marketplace for over a... Read more
Chapter 1 Wading into Foucault's Paddling Pool; Chapter 2 Bound and Unbound; Chapter 3 Entrepreneurial Recombinations in Frankenstein; Chapter 4 The Difference of a Doubloon; Chapter 5 Desire and Indifference in Sister Carrie;

Biography

Charles R. Lewis