162 Pages
by
Routledge
162 Pages
by
Routledge
162 Pages
by
Routledge
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When people speak about love and money, they usually are referring to a conflict: love distorted by the desire for money. Such statements imply that love has a distinct form before economics interferes, but this book aims to show that such a view simplifies what is going on, because people have always been deeply shaped by everything in the social order, including economics. So when people say... Read more
Introduction
Chapter 1: Digesting Foreign Treasure: Early Modern Mercantilist Lovers.
Chapter 2: Disconnecting Bloodlines: Moving to Capitalist Romance
Chapter 3: Usury in the Bedroom: Financing Desire
Chapter 4: Leaving the Body to Become Information
Bibliography
Biography
Michael Tratner received a Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Berkeley, and is currently the Mary E. Garrett Alumnae Professor of English at Bryn Mawr College. He has published three books: Modernism and Mass Politics: Joyce, Woolf, Eliot, Yeats; Deficits, Desires: Economics and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Literature; and Crowd Scenes: Movies and Mass Politics.
