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Love and Money - A Literary History of Desires (Paperback)
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Love and Money - A Literary History of Desires (Paperback)
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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 that money is distorting love, what they are really saying is
that the current relationship of love and economics is different
from an earlier relationship. This book seeks then to demonstrate
the intertwining of the discourses of love and money over a long
history by focusing on moments when parallel conceptions appear in
economic theories and love stories. The two discourses intersect
because both seek to define qualities and behaviors of human beings
which are most valuable and hence most desirable. Similar
descriptions of valuable behaviors appear at roughly the same time
in economic theories of how to acquire wealth and literary stories
of how to find ideal lovers. By tracking mutual expressions of
desire, value, and acquisition in economics and love stories, this
book argues for the ubiquity of the intertwining of these
discourses, while exploring shifts in conceptions of value. It
focuses on four eras when economic and romantic conceptions of what
is most desirable were actively changing in English discourses: the
early modern 17th century, the Victorian 19th, the modernist 20th,
and the postmodern present.
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