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Since the Middle Ages, literature has portrayed the economic world in poetry, drama, stories and novels. The complexity of human realities highlights crucial aspects of the economy. The nexus linking characters to their economic environment is central in a new genre, the "economic novel", that puts forth economic choices and events to narrate social behavior, individual desires, and even non-economic decisions. For many authors, literary narration also offers a means to express critical viewpoints about economic development, for example in regards to its ecological or social ramifications. Conflicts of economic interest have social, political and moral causes and consequences. This book shows how economic and literary texts deal with similar subjects, and explores the ways in which economic ideas and metaphors shape literary texts, focusing on the analogies between economic theories and narrative structure in literature and drama. This volume also suggests that connecting literature and economics can help us find a common language to voice new, critical perspectives on crises and social change. Written by an impressive array of experts in their fields, Economics and Literature is an important read for those who study history of economic thought, economic theory and philosophy, as well as literary and critical theory.

Economics and literature. --- Economie politique et littérature --- Economic schools --- Economie politique et littérature

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Book history --- anno 1800-1899 --- France --- Great Britain --- Economics and literature --- Economie politique et littérature --- Economie politique et littérature

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This book advances a "horizontal" method of comparative literature and applies this approach to analyze the multiple emergences of early realism and novelistic modernity in Eastern and Western cultural spheres from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries. Naming this era of economic globalization the 'Age of Silver, ' this study emphasizes the bullion flow from South America and Japan to China through international commerce, and argues that the resultant transcontinental monetary and commercial co-evolutions stimulated analogous socioeconomic shifts and emergent novelistic realisms in places such as China, Japan, Spain, and England. The main texts it addresses include The Plum in the Golden Vase (anonymous, China, late sixteenth century), Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes, Spain, 1605 and 1615), The Life of an Amorous Man (Ihara Saikaku, Japan, 1682), and Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe, England, 1719). These Eastern and Western narratives indicate from their own geographical vantage points commercial expansions' stimulation of social mobility and larger processes of cultural destabilization. Their realist tendencies are underlain with politically critical functions and connote "heteroglossic" national imaginaries. This horizontal argument realigns novelistic modernity with a multipolar global context and reestablishes commensurabilities between Eastern and Western literary histories. On a broader level, it challenges the unilateral equation between globalization and modernity with westernization, and foregrounds a polycentric mode of global early modernity for pluralizing the genealogy of 'world literature' and historical transcultural relations.

Économie politique et littérature --- Littérature et mondialisation --- Littérature comparée --- Réalisme (littérature) --- Asiatique et occidentale --- Xiaoxiaosheng. --- Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de --- Ihara, Saikaku --- Defoe, Daniel

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La pensée économique a destin lié avec l'invention de la modernité, depuis son émergence à la charnière du XVIIe et du XVIIIe siècles jusqu'à son triomphe contesté de nos jours. Elle s'est progressivement imposée comme le modèle dominant de représentation du monde, à travers une colonisation progressive du langage, une reconfiguration de l'imaginaire collectif et un remodelage des consciences individuelles. De cette évolution, la littérature a présenté à la fois des symptômes, des réflexions critiques et des dépassements poétiques. Le présent volume regroupe une douzaine d'études explorant quelques-unes des zones frontières où s'entrecroisent, depuis quatre siècles, discours économiques et discours littéraires. Il s'agit non seulement de mettre les problématiques économiques en regard avec leur traitement littéraire, mais aussi de mesurer en quoi les problématiques littéraires s'enracinent dans les processus économiques. Même si les oeuvres étudiées sont parfois vieilles de plusieurs siècles, les questions que posent ces analyses relèvent d'une éminente actualité. De Scarron à Proust, en passant par le théâtre du XVIIIe siècle, André Chénier, Isabelle de Charrière ou encore Emile Zola, les différents chapitres se recoupent autour de quelques questions centrales : comment articuler entre elles valeurs morales et valeurs financières, économie domestique et marchés spéculatifs ? Comment juguler la marchandisation de l'humain et de ses affects ? Comment gérer le commerce des biens culturels et symboliques, entre soifs de gloire et vœux de désintéressement ? Comment mettre en spectacle la vente de la chair (celle de l'esclave ou de la prostituée) ?

Thematology --- French literature --- Economics in literature --- Economics and literature --- Littérature française --- Economie politique dans la littérature --- Economie politique et littérature --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Economics in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Littérature française --- Economie politique dans la littérature --- Economie politique et littérature --- Économie politique --- Économie politique et littérature --- Dans la littérature --- Thèmes, motifs --- France --- 17e siècle --- 18e siècle --- 19e siècle

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Book industries and trade --- Book industries and trade. --- Books and reading --- Books and reading. --- Economics and literature. --- Literature --- Littérature suédoise --- Littérature --- Livres et lecture --- Livres --- Swedish literature --- Économie politique et littérature. --- Valuation. --- Aspect social. --- Aspect économique. --- Édition. --- Évaluation. --- Industrie --- Economic aspects. --- Publishing. --- Social aspects. --- Sweden.