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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

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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.

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