THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO LITERATURE AND ECONOMICS In recent years, money, finance, and the economy have emerged as central topics in literary studies. The Cambridge Companion to LiteratureandEconomicsexplainstheinnovativecriticalmethodsthat scholars have developed to explore the economic concerns of texts ranging from the medieval period to the present. Across seventeen chaptersbyleadingexpertsinvariousfields,thebookhighlightshow, throughout literary history, economic matters have intersected with crucial topics including race, gender, sexuality, nation, empire, and theenvironment.Italsoexploreshowresearchersinotherdisciplines areturningtoliteratureandliterarytheoryforinsightsintoeconomic questions.Combiningthoroughhistoricalcoveragewithattentionto emerging issues and approaches, this book will appeal to literary scholarsandtohistoriansandsocialscientistsinterestedintheliterary and culturaldimensions ofeconomics. Paul Crosthwaite is a senior lecturer in the Department of English Literature atthe Universityof Edinburgh. Peter Knight is Professor of American Studies at the University of Manchester. Nicky Marsh is a professor of twentieth century literary studies at the University of Southampton and Director of the Southampton Institute forArtsand Humanities (SIAH). 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Published online by Cambridge University Press Contents List of Contributors page vii Introduction: The Interwovenness of Literature and Economics  Paul Crosthwaite, Peter Knight, and Nicky Marsh        Medieval Literature’s Economic Imagination  Craig E. Bertolet  Early Modern Literature and Monetary Debate  David Landreth  Literary and Economic Exchanges in the Long Eighteenth Century  E.J. Clery  Economic Literature and Economic Thought in the Nineteenth Century  Sarah Comyn  Women, Money, and Modernism  Nicky Marsh  Economic Logics and Postmodern Forms  Laura Finch  Writing Postcolonial Capitalism  Cheryl NarumiNaruse v Published online by Cambridge University Press vi Contents       The Economy of Race  Michael Germana  American Literature and the Fiction of Corporate Personhood  Peter Knight  Political Economy, the Family, and Sexuality  DavidAlderson  The Literary Marketplace and the Rise of Neoliberalism  Paul Crosthwaite  World-Systems and Literary Studies  Stephen Shapiro  Crisis, Labor, and the Contemporary  Liam Connell  Speculative Fiction and Post-Capitalist Speculative Economies: Blueprints and Critiques  Jo Lindsay Walton      The Keynesian Theory of Jamesonian Utopia: Interdisciplinarity in Economics  MattSeybold  Reading beyond Behavioral Economics  Gary Saul Morson andMorton Schapiro  Fictional Expectations and Imagination in Economics  JensBeckert and Richard Bronk Further Reading  Index  Published online by Cambridge University Press Contributors David Alderson is Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Manchester and has written extensively on gender, sexuality, and the neoliberal transition. He is the author of Sex, Needs, and Queer Culture (), and coeditor of For Humanism: ExplorationsinTheoryandPolitics().Heiscurrentlyworkingon a project on culture and the political economy of the family. JensBeckertisProfessorofSociologyandadirectoroftheMaxPlanck InstitutefortheStudyofSocietiesinCologne.Heistheauthor,most recently, of Imagined Futures: Fictional Expectations and Capitalist Dynamics () and coeditor, with Richard Bronk, of Uncertain Futures: Imaginaries, Narratives, and Calculation in the Economy (). Craig E. Bertolet is Professor of English at Auburn University. He is theauthorofChaucer,Gower,Hoccleve,andtheCommercialPractices of Late Fourteenth-Century London (). He has coedited, with Robert Epstein, Money, Commerce, and Economics in Late Medieval English Literature (). His articles have appeared in Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Chaucer Review, and Studies in Philology, among others.Heisatpresentworkingonabookonmoneyinlatemedieval English literature. Richard Bronk is author of The Romantic Economist: Imagination in Economics () and coeditor, with Jens Beckert, of Uncertain Futures: Imaginaries, Narratives, and Calculation in the Economy (). He worked for seventeen years in the City of London – as a European equity fund manager and an adviser at the Bank of England. From , he taught political economy in the European InstituteattheLondonSchoolofEconomics,wherehewasaVisiting Senior Fellow until . vii Published online by Cambridge University Press viii List of Contributors E.J.CleryisProfessorofEnglishLiteratureatUppsalaUniversity.Her publications include The Rise of Supernatural Fiction, – (); Women’s Gothic from Clara Reeve to Mary Shelley (); The Feminization Debate in Eighteenth-Century England: Literature, Commerce, and Luxury (); Jane Austen: The Banker’s Sister (); and Eighteen Hundred and Eleven: Poetry, Protest, and Economic Crisis (), awarded the British Academy Rose Mary Crawshay Prize. She teaches and researches eighteenth-century and Romantic-era literature, book history, and the cultural history of economics. Sarah Comyn is a Lecturer and Ad Astra Fellow in the School of English, Drama, and Film at University College Dublin. Recent publications include Political Economy and the Novel: A Literary History of “Homo Economicus” (), Early Public Libraries and Colonial Citizenship in the British Southern Hemisphere (with Lara Atkin, Porscha Fermanis, and Nathan Garvey; ), and Worlding theSouth:Nineteenth-CenturyLiteraryCultureandtheSouthernSettler Colonies (coedited with Porscha Fermanis; ). Liam Connell is Principal Lecturer in Literature at the University of Brighton. He is the author of Precarious Labour and the Contemporary Novel (). His research interests include the representations of gender and the global divisions of labor within contemporary culture. Paul Crosthwaite is a senior lecturer in the Department of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of The Market Logics of Contemporary Fiction () and Trauma, Postmodernism, and the Aftermath of World War II (); coauthor of Invested: How Three Centuries of Stock Market Advice Reshaped OurMoney,Markets,andMinds();editorofCriticism,Crisis,and Contemporary Narrative: Textual Horizons in an Age of Global Risk (); and coeditor, with Peter Knight and Nicky Marsh, of Show MetheMoney:TheImageofFinance,tothePresent()andthe book series Palgrave Studies in Literature, Culture, and Economics. Laura Finch is an Assistant Professor in the Literature Section at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and her research focuses on twenty-first-century novels and finance. Her work has appeared in AmericanLiteraryHistory,ComparativeLiteratureStudies,theJournal of American Studies, the Journal of Cultural Economy, and boundary. Michael Germana is Professor of English at West Virginia University. His research examines how technologies of racialization are insepara- ble fromprevailing ideas about money and time. He is the author of Published online by Cambridge University Press List of Contributors ix Standards of Value: Money, Race, and Literature in America () and Ralph Ellison, Temporal Technologist (). Peter Knight is Professor of American Studies at the University of Manchester. Heresearches conspiracytheories and thecultural stud- ies of finance, and is the author of Reading the Market: Genres of Financial Capitalism in Gilded Age America () and coauthor of Invested: How Three Centuries of Stock Market Advice Reshaped Our Money, Markets, and Minds (). Together with Paul Crosthwaite andNickyMarsh,hecuratedthe“ShowMetheMoney”exhibition, and edits the book series Palgrave Studies in Literature, Culture, and Economics. David Landreth is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of The Face of Mammon: The Matter of Money in English Renaissance Literature (), and of several articles and chapters addressing the changing conditions of material value in early modern literature and culture. His new work considers less material forms of value, such as glory and charity, whichearlymodernwritersdrawfromthemedievalandclassicalpast. Nicky Marsh is a professor of twentieth-century literary studies at the University of Southampton and Director of the Southampton Institute for Arts and Humanities (SIAH). She is the author of Credit Culture: The Politics of Money in the American Novel of the s (), Money, Speculation, and Finance in Contemporary British Fiction (), and Democracy in Contemporary US Women’s Poetry().SheiscoauthorofInvested:HowThreeCenturiesofStock Market Advice Reshaped Our Money, Markets, and Minds (). She is also coeditor, with Paul Crosthwaite and Peter Knight, of Show Me the Money: The Image of Finance,  to the Present () and thebookseriesPalgraveStudiesinLiterature,Culture,andEconomics. GarySaulMorsonistheLawrenceB.DumasProfessoroftheArtsand Humanities and a Professor in the Slavic Languages and Literatures DepartmentatNorthwesternUniversity.HisbooksincludeTheLong andtheShortofIt:FromAphorismtoNovel()andNarrativeand Freedom: The Shadows of Time (). He and Morton Schapiro are the authors of Minds Wide Shut: How the New Fundamentalisms Divide Us () and Cents and Sensibility: What Economics Can Learn from the Humanities (). Cheryl Narumi Naruse is Assistant Professor of English and the Mellon Assistant Professor in the Humanities at Tulane University. Her research and teaching interests include Anglophone literatures Published online by Cambridge University Press x List of Contributors from Asia and the Pacific, diasporic Asian literature, post-colonial theory, and genre studies. She is completing a book manuscript on theliterary/culturalproductionofSingaporeasglobalAsiaasitrelates to the history of postcolonial capitalism. Morton Schapiro has been Professor of Economics and President of Northwestern University since , after serving in similar roles at Williams College. He and Gary Saul Morson are the authors of Minds Wide Shut: How the New Fundamentalisms Divide Us () and Cents and Sensibility: What Economics Can Learn from the Humanities (). In  he was elected a fellow of the AmericanAcademy ofArts andSciences,andin hewaselected to the National Academy of Education. Matt Seybold is Associate Professor of American Literature and Mark TwainStudiesatElmiraCollege,aswellasscholar-in-residenceatthe Center for Mark Twain Studies, editor of MarkTwainStudies.org, andhostofTheAmericanVandalPodcast.HecoeditedTheRoutledge Companion to Literature and Economics () and a  special issue of American Literary History on “Economics and American Literary Studies in the New Gilded Age.” Recent publications can be foundinAeon,American Studies, MarkTwainAnnual,Leviathan, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and The Johns Hopkins Guide to Critical and Cultural Theory. Stephen Shapiro teaches in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. Recent work includes Pentecostal Modernism: Lovecraft, Los Angeles, and World-Systems Culture (with Philip Barnard; ); Neoliberalism and Contemporary American Literature (edited with Liam Kennedy; ); and World Literature, Neoliberalism, and the Culture of Discontent (edited with Sharae Deckard; ). Work-in-progress includes The Cultural Fix: Capital, Social Labor-Power, and the Long Spiral and Neoliberalism, Data Capitalism, and Cultures of the Intersectional Left. Jo Lindsay Walton is a Research Fellow in Critical and Cultural Theory at the Sussex Humanities Lab. His other writing about SFF and economics includes “Computing Utopia: The Horizons of Computational Economies in History and Science Fiction,” coau- thored with Elizabeth Stainforth, in Science Fiction Studies (), and “Estranged Entrepreneurs and the Meaning of Money in Cory Doctorow’s Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom” in Foundation Published online by Cambridge University Press