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A Coincidence of Wants - The Novel and Neoclassical Economics (Hardcover, annotated edition)
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A Coincidence of Wants - The Novel and Neoclassical Economics (Hardcover, annotated edition)
Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
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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 century.
Lewis argues that this overlooked area of economic thought, with
its emphasis on subjective value, individual agency, and utility
maximization, points to a previously unrecognized and important
"coincidence of wants" between economic and novelistic discourse.
In each of the four readings, Lewis uses a single economic problem
from neoclassical theory as a model for interpreting novelistic
form and content as economic configurations. Topics include
narrative deferral, detour, and return as a performance of capital
formation and economic development in Daniel Defoe's "Robinson
Crusoe;" the emergence of the creative, risk-taking entrepreneur in
Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein;" the representation of money in the
romantic realization of trade in Herman Melville's "Moby Dick;" and
a consumer utility theory of naturalist desire and indifference in
Theodore Dreiser's "Sister Carrie."
Underscoring how neoclassical theory variously elaborates on and
departs from other economic approaches and periods, the author also
addresses the limitations of, and the possibilities of profitable
exchange with, other critical frameworks for understanding literal
and symbolic economies in narrative fiction more broadly.
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