The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Economics

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In recent years, money, finance, and the economy have emerged as central topics in literary studies. The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Economics explains the innovative critical methods that scholars have developed to explore the economic concerns of texts ranging from the medieval period to the present. Across seventeen chapters by field-leading experts, the book highlights how, throughout literary history, economic matters have intersected with crucial topics including race, gender, sexuality, nation, empire, and the environment. It also explores how researchers in other disciplines are turning to literature and literary theory for insights into economic questions. Combining thorough historical coverage with attention to emerging issues and approaches, this Companion will appeal to literary scholars and to historians and social scientists interested in the literary and cultural dimensions of economics.

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 (2019) and Trauma, Postmodernism, and the Aftermath of World War II (2009); co-author of Invested: The History of Popular Financial Advice (2022); editor of Criticism, Crisis, and Contemporary Narrative: Textual Horizons in an Age of Global Risk (2010); and co-editor, with Peter Knight and Nicky Marsh, of Show Me the Money: The Image of Finance, 1700 to the Present (2014) and the book series Palgrave Studies in Literature, Culture, and Economics. Peter Knight is Professor of American Studies at the University of Manchester. He researches conspiracy theories and the cultural studies of finance, and is the author of Reading the Market: Genres of Financial Capitalism in Gilded Age America (2019), which won the British Association for American Studies Book Prize, and co-author of Invested: The History of Popular Financial Advice (2022). Together with Paul Crosthwaite and Nicky Marsh, he curated the "Show Me the Money" exhibition. 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 1970s (2020), Money, Speculation, and Finance in Contemporary British Fiction (2007), and Democracy in Contemporary US Women's Poetry (2007). She is co-author of Invested: The History of Popular Financial Advice (2022). She is also co-editor, with Paul Crosthwaite and Peter Knight, of Show Me the Money: The Image of Finance, 1700 to the Present.