The Cambridge Companion to Literature and 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.

Introduction: the interwovenness of literature and economics Paul Crosthwaite, Peter Knight, Nicky Marsh; Part I. Histories and Critical Traditions: 1. Medieval literature's economic imagination Craig E. Bertolet; 2. Early modern literature and monetary debate David Landreth; 3. Literary and economic exchanges in the long eighteenth century E. J. Clery; 4. Economic literature and economic thought in the nineteenth century Sarah Comyn; 5. Women, money, and modernism Nicky Marsh; 6. Economic logics and postmodern forms Laura Finch; 7. Writing postcolonial capitalism Cheryl Narumi Naruse; Part II: Contemporary Critical Perspectives: 8. The economy of race Michael Germana; 9. American literature and the fiction of corporate personhood Peter Knight; 10. Political economy, the family, and sexuality David Alderson; 11. The literary marketplace and the rise of neoliberalism Paul Crosthwaite; 12. World systems and literary studies Stephen Shapiro; 13. Crisis, Labor, and the Contemporary Liam Connell; 14. Speculative fiction and post-capitalist speculative economies: blueprints and critiques Jo Lindsay Walton; Part III: Interdisciplinary Exchanges: 15. The Keynesian theory of Jamesonian utopia: interdisciplinarity in economics Matt Seybold; 16. Reading beyond behavioral economics Gary Saul Morson, Morton Schapiro; 17. Fictional expectations and imagination in economics Jens Beckert, Richard Bronk.