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Power, Prose, and Purse: Law, Literature, and Economic Transformations

Power, Prose, and Purse: Law, Literature, and Economic Transformations

Author: Alison LaCroix; Saul Levmore; Martha C. Nussbaum
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780190873455
Published In: July 2019
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.S. ? Disclaimer:
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From Anthony Trollop to Sinclair Lewis, and from Jane Austen to James Joyce and John Steinbeck, many important novels touch on fundamental questions about the role of money in human affairs. These questions are explored in this volume through the lens of law and literature.

The sixteen essays collected here, by important theorists from a range of disciplines, shed new light on the impact of economic change, from the Industrial Revolution to the Great Depression. Students of economics and business will gain a new appreciation of literature's insights on singular events and human emotions. Similarly, scholars and students of literature will gain an appreciation for the power of law and economics to inform literary and social analysis.

The volume's focus on novels about money and economic upheaval showcases the power of the disciplinary marriage of law and literature.

Introduction

Part One. Swindlers or Entrepreneurs?

Susanna Blumenthal, Counterfeiting Confidence: The Problem of Trust in the Age of Contract

Nicola Lacey, Gamblers and Gentlefolk: Money, Law and Status in Trollope's England

Saul Levmore, Regulating Greed: Biographical Markers in Dos Passos' The Big Money

Martha C. Nussbaum, The Morning and the Evening Star: Religion, Money, and Love in Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt and Elmer Gantry

Justin Driver, Jay Gatsby, Justice Douglas, and the Significance of Class in American Society

Part Two. Preferences and Capitalists

Jonathan S. Masur & Seebany Data-Barua, Wealth and Warfare in the Novels of Jane Austen

Alison LaCroix, Commerce, Law, and Revolution in the Novels of Elizabeth Gaskell and Charlotte Bront

Robin West, Bartleby's Consensual Dysphoria

Martha C. Nussbaum, Love from the Point of View of the Universe: Walt Whitman and the Utilitarian Imagination

Douglas G. Baird, Money and Art in Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward

Laura Weinrib, The Second New Deal and the Fourth Courtroom Wall: Law, Labor, and Liberty in The Cradle Will Rock

Carol M. Rose, Raisin, Race, and the Real Estate Revolution of the Early 20

Part Three. Optimism and Pessimism

Richard H. McAdams, The Grapes of Wrath, Economics, and Luck

Deirdre Nansen McCloskey, Irish (and English and American) Poets, Learn Your Trade: Law and Economics in Poetry

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