From Political Economy to Economics through Nineteenth-Century Literature Reclaiming the Social /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hadley, Elaine (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Jaffe, Audrey (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Winter, Sarah (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Culture and Economics
• Subjects: Literature, Modern-19th century.; Literature-History and criticism.; Economic history.; Nineteenth-Century Literature.; Literary History.; Economic History.
• Physical Description: XIII, 287 p. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783030241582
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-24158-2

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.