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A Coincidence of Wants: The Novel and Neoclassical Economics (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory: the Interaction of Text and Society)

by Charles Lewis

LiteratureNeoclassical school of economicsHistory and criticismEconomics in literatureÉcole néoclassique d'économie politiqueLittératureHistoire et critique

This interdisciplinary study examines four major British and American novels in view of key concepts from the mainstream tradition of neo-classical economics. Authors studied include Defoe, Mary Shelley, Melville and Theodore Dreiser.

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