Focusing on the transition from political economy to economics, this volume seeks to restore social content to economic abstractions through readings of nineteenth-century British and American literature. The essays gathered here, by new as well as established scholars of literature and economics, link important nineteenth-century texts and histories with present-day issues such as exploitation, income inequality, globalization, energy consumption, property ownership and rent, human capital, corporate power, and environmental degradation. Organized according to key concepts for future research, the collection has a clear interdisciplinary, humanities approach and international reach. These diverse essays will interest students and scholars in literature, history, political science, economics, sociology, law, and cultural studies, in addition to readers generally interested in the Victorian period.

Autorentext

Elaine Hadley is Professor of English and Gender Studies at the University of Chicago, USA.

Audrey Jaffe is Professor of English at the University of Toronto, Canada. Sarah Winter is Professor of English and Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA.

Inhalt
Chapter 1: Introduction Reclaiming the Social, Elaine Hadley, Audrey Jaffe, and Sarah Winter
I.Labor Chapter 2: Human Capital Becker the Obscure: Human Capital Theory, Victorian Liberalisms, and the Future of Higher Education, Elaine HadleyChapter 3: Exploitation On the Use and Abuse of the Nineteenth Century: Towards a Genealogy of Exploitation, Zachary SamalinChapter 4: Slavery Forgetting Cairnes: The Slave Power and the Political Economy of Racism, Gordon Bigelow II.Growth Chapter 5: Expansion Expansion in the Fossil Economy and Craik's John Halifax, Gentleman, Aye ÇelikkolChapter 6: Sustainability Sustainability & Its Discontents: The View from the Nineteenth Century, Deanna K. Kreisel III.Property Chapter 7: Rent When a House is So Much More: Character, Tenancy, and Property in Victorian Fiction, Audrey JaffeChapter 8: Corporation The Zero-Sum Game of Corporate Personhood, Clare Eby
IV.ValueChapter 9: Choice Narrating Choice in Later Nineteenth-Century Novels and Neoclassical Economics, Amanpal GarchaChapter 10: Global Inequality Documenting Globalization in Rural India: The Conflation of the Freedom of the Market with The Freedom of the Person in The New York Times, Mukti Lakhi MangharamChapter 11: Equity Henry Mayhew and Thomas Piketty on Equity and Inequality, Sarah Winter