Title Political economy, literature & the formation of knowledge, 1720-1850

Published New York : Routledge, 2018

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Description 1 online resource Series Routledge studies in eighteenth-century literature Routledge studies in eighteenth-century literature. Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Contributors; Introduction: The Formation of Political Economy as a Knowledge Practice; PART I: Representation and Political Economy; SECTION 1 Abstractions; 1 â#x80;#x9C;The Visionary Scene Was Lost in Airâ#x80;#x9D;: Conceptualizing Finance after the South Sea Bubble; 2 Insect Nature and Human Political Economy: The Notion of the Population across Natural History and Physiocracy in Enlightenment France; SECTION 2 Fictions 3 â#x80;#x9C;Pilfering, and Burning, and Studious Wasteâ#x80;#x9D;: Food Security and Political Economy in Harriet Martineauâ#x80;#x99;s Cinnamon and Pearls4 â#x80;#x9C;I Have Tried to Write Truthfullyâ#x80;#x9D;: Fictions of Science in Womenâ#x80;#x99;s Writing of Nineteenth-Century Political Economy; PART II: Political Economy and Its Others; SECTION 3 Vision, Surveillance, and the Corporation; 5 Malthusâ#x80;#x99;s Vision: Ekphrasis and Corporate Sovereignty; 6 Moral Surveillance after Malthus; SECTION 4 Political Economy and Affect; 7 The â#x80;#x9C;Adam Smith Problemâ#x80;#x9D; and the Retreat of Sentimental Virtue from the World 8 The Anxiety of Inheritance: Work and the Impasses of Accumulation in Dickensâ#x80;#x99;s The Old Curiosity ShopPART III: Modelling Political Economy Today; SECTION 5 Models and Their Consequence; 9 From the South Sea Bubble to Modern Finance: The Legacy of Two Eighteenth-Century Economic Ideas; 10 Afterword: Modelling the Political Economy in the Twenty-First Century; Bibliography; Index Summary This edited collection, Political Economy, Literature & the Formation of Knowledge, aims to address the genealogy and formation of political economy as a knowledge project from 1720 to 1850. Through individual essays on both literary and political economic writers, this volume defines and analyses the formative moves, both epistemological and representational, which proved foundational to the emergence of political economy as a dominant discourse of modernity. The collection also explores political economy's relation to other discourses and knowledge practices in this period; representation in and of political economy; abstraction and political economy; fictional mediations and interrogations of political economy; and political economy and its 'others', including political economy and affect, and political economy and the aesthetic. Essays presented in this text are at once historical and conceptual in focus, and manifest literary critical disciplinary expertise whilst being of genuinely broad and interdisciplinary interest. Amongst the writers whose work is addressed are: Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, David Hume, Thomas Malthus, Jane Marcet, J. S. Mill, David Ricardo, and Adam Smith. The introduction, by the editors, sets up the conceptual, theoretical and analytical framework explored by each of the essays. The final essay and response bring the concerns of the volume up to date by engaging with current economic and financial realities, by, respectively, showing how an informed and critical history of political economy could transform current economic practices, and by exploring the abundance of recent conceptual art addressing representation and the unpresentable in economic practice Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 20, 2018) Subject English literature -- 17th century -- History and criticism English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism Enlightenment -- England English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. English literature Enlightenment England Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book Author Packham, Catherine. ISBN 9781351009508 1351009508 9781351009515 1351009516 9781351009492 1351009494 9781351009522 1351009524

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