The New Economic Criticism: Studies at Intersection of Literature and Economics Book

	List of figures
	List of plates
	Notes on the contributors
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
1	Taking account of the New Economic Criticism: an historical introduction	3
Pt. I	Language and money	51
2	The issue of representation	53
3	"I talk to everybody in their own way": Defoe's economies of identity	75
4	Buying into signs: money and semiosis in eighteenth-century German language theory	95
5	Cash, check, or charge?	114
Pt. II	Critical economics	129
6	Dominant economic metaphors and the postmodern subversion of the subject	131
7	The toggling sensibility: formalism, self-consciousness, and the improvement of economics	150
8	The ends of economics	175
Pt. III	Economics of the irrational	191
9	A portrait of Homo economicus as a Young Man	193
10	Banishing panic: Harriet Martineau and the popularization of political economy	210
11	"Libidinal economics": Lyotard and accounting for the unaccountable	229
Pt. IV	Economic ethics: debts and bondage	243
12	Montaigne's Essais: metaphors of capital and exchange	245
13	Sade's ethical economies	258
14	Fugitive properties	277
Pt. V	Economies of authorship	291
15	"A taste for more": Trollope's addictive realism	293
16	Commodifying Tennyson: the historical transformation of "brand loyalty"	307
17	Smoking, the hack, and the general equivalent	321
Pt. VI	Modernism and markets	333
18	Who paid for modernism?	335
19	Rhetoric, science, and economic prophecy: John Maynard Keynes's correspondence with Franklin D. Roosevelt	352
20	A man is his bonds: The Great Gatsby and deficit spending	365
Pt. VII	Critical exchanges	379
21	Literary/cultural "Economies," economic discourse, and the question of Marxism	381
22	Reply to Amariglio and Ruccio's "Literary/cultural 'economies,' economic discourse, and the question of Marxism"	401
23	Symbolic economics: adventures in the metaphorical marketplace	408
	Index	420