Political Economy and the Novel: A Literary History of 'Homo
Economicus' provides a transhistorical account of homo economicus
(economic man), demonstrating this figure's significance to
economic theory and the Anglo-American novel over a 250-year
period. Beginning with Adam Smith's seminal texts - Theory of Moral
Sentiments and The Wealth of Nations - and Henry Fielding's A
History of Tom Jones, this book combines the methodologies of new
historicism and new economic criticism to investigate the evolution
of the homo economicus model as it traverses through Ricardian
economics and Jane Austen's Sanditon; J. S. Mill and Charles
Dickens' engagement with mid-Victorian dualities; Keynesianism and
Mrs Dalloway's exploration of post-war consumer impulses; the
a/moralistic discourses of Friedrich von Hayek, and Ayn Rand's
Atlas Shrugged; and finally the virtual crises of the twenty-first
century financial market and Don DeLillo's Cosmopolis. Through its
sustained comparative analysis of literary and economic discourses,
this book transforms our understanding of the genre of the novel
and offers critical new understandings of literary value, cultural
capital and the moral foundations of political economy.
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