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Power, prose, and purse : law, literature, and economic transformations / edited by Alison LaCroix, Saul Levmore, and Martha C. Nussbaum.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- English literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- Economics and literature--United States--History--20th century.
- Economics and literature.
- Law and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Law and literature.
- Law and literature--United States--History--19th century.
- Law and literature--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Law and literature--United States--History--20th century.
- Economics and literature--United States--History--19th century.
- Economics and literature--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Economics in literature.
- American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Law in literature.
- American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- Economics and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (385 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- 'Power, Prose, and Purse' is an edited collection of essays that draw connections between literature, economics and law. The essays discuss literary works that explore the time period between the Industrial Revolution and the Great Depression and analyze the insights that novelists can offer to law and economics, while noting the tensions among these paradigms.
- Contents:
- Counterfeiting confidence: the problem of trust in the age of contract / Susanna Blumenthal
- Gamblers and gentlefolk: money, law and status in Trollope's England / Nicola Lacey
- Regulating greed: biographical markers in Dos Passos' The big money / Saul Levmore
- The morning and the evening star: religion, money, and love in Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt and Elmer Gantry / Martha C. Nussbaum
- Jay Gatsby, Justice Douglas, and the significance of class in American society / Justin Driver
- Wealth and warfare in the novels of Jane Austen / Jonathan S. Masur & Seebany Data-Barua
- Commerce, law, and revolution in the novels of Elizabeth Gaskell and Charlotte Brontë / Alison LaCroix
- Bartleby's consensual dysphoria / Robin West
- Love from the point of view of the universe: Walt Whitman and the utilitarian imagination / Martha C. Nussbaum
- Money and art in Edward Bellamy's Looking backward / Douglas G. Baird
- The second New Deal and the fourth courtroom wall: law, labor, and liberty in The cradle will rock / Laura Weinrib
- Raisin, race, and the real estate revolution of the early 20th century / Carol M. Rose
- The grapes of wrath, economics, and luck / Richard H. McAdams
- Irish (and English and American) poets, learn your trade: law and economics in poetry / Deirdre Nansen McCloskey.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- Previously issued in print: 2019.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-087347-7
- 0-19-087348-5
- 0-19-087346-9
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