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Penn State University
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Tendler, Joshua Marc.
Sublime Insolvency: The Aesthetics of Failure and American Literature After the Panic of 1837.
Degree: 2014, Penn State University
URL: https://submit-etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/23575
► Although it is often glossed over or mentioned in passing in literary studies, the Panic of 1837 was one of the most important historical moments…
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▼ Although it is often glossed over or mentioned in passing in literary studies, the Panic of 1837 was one of the most important historical moments in the antebellum United States. Among other consequences, it served as a catalyst for a surge in literary and cultural production related to
economic crisis, the “credit system,” and individual failure; its impact lasted through the Civil War. In the wreckage left behind by the collapse, American writers, especially those involved in reform movements, struggled to reaffirm faith in the rationality and comprehensibility of the credit-based market and the possibilities for individual self-possession and permanent value. This dissertation explores four such recuperative sites of fantasy that were prevalent in the
literature of the post-Panic years: the home, the spirit-world, the temperance meeting, and the post-1848 West. While these discourses attempted to serve as reassurances for the possibilities of success amidst widespread failure, this project analyzes the ways in which for many authors affected by the Panic, working within these very discourses, this fantasy of recuperation was bound to end in failure. From this failure, however, emerge ways of living and relating to others that run against the grain or question the desirability of the values associated with
economic success. Exploring writers from Catherine Maria Sedgwick to Theodore Winthrop, I argue that antebellum
literature inverted the prevailing definitions of success and failure, making from the latter the means of imagining social ethics through and beyond the credit market.
Advisors/Committee Members: Christopher Dean Castiglia, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor, Christopher Dean Castiglia, Committee Chair/Co-Chair, Hester Maureen Blum, Committee Member, Sean X Goudie, Committee Member, Amy S Greenberg, Special Member.
Subjects/Keywords: American Literature; Economic History
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Tendler, J. M. (2014). Sublime Insolvency: The Aesthetics of Failure and American Literature After the Panic of 1837. (Thesis). Penn State University. Retrieved from https://submit-etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/23575
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Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Tendler, Joshua Marc. “Sublime Insolvency: The Aesthetics of Failure and American Literature After the Panic of 1837.” 2014. Thesis, Penn State University. Accessed January 19, 2021.
https://submit-etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/23575.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Tendler, Joshua Marc. “Sublime Insolvency: The Aesthetics of Failure and American Literature After the Panic of 1837.” 2014. Web. 19 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Tendler JM. Sublime Insolvency: The Aesthetics of Failure and American Literature After the Panic of 1837. [Internet] [Thesis]. Penn State University; 2014. [cited 2021 Jan 19].
Available from: https://submit-etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/23575.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Tendler JM. Sublime Insolvency: The Aesthetics of Failure and American Literature After the Panic of 1837. [Thesis]. Penn State University; 2014. Available from: https://submit-etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/23575
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Columbia University
2.
Perisic, Alexandra.
Contesting Globalization: Ethics, Politics, and Aesthetics in the Atlantic World Economy.
Degree: 2014, Columbia University
URL: https://doi.org/10.7916/D8JD4TXP
► This dissertation examines how contemporary narrative fiction in French and Spanish represents experiences of migration and the circulation of capital and goods in the globalized…
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▼ This dissertation examines how contemporary narrative fiction in French and Spanish represents experiences of migration and the circulation of capital and goods in the globalized Atlantic. I argue that the attempt to imagine an increasingly globalized world has been accompanied by a waning interest in character development and an increased interest in what could be characterized as the spatial dimension of literature. Many recent `global fictions' present readers with impenetrable characters whose interiority is inaccessible. The lack of depth is, however, replaced by geographical breadth. As characters move through space, bringing into relation several different geographical locations, authors draw attention to transnational sites of marginalization and imagine alternative power configurations.
Several important studies have examined the engagement of Francophone writers with globalization in the late 20th and early 21st century. While these readings are sophisticated and persuasive, they remain confined within the Francophone context, rarely establishing comparisons with the Anglophone and the Hispanophone contexts. We thus end up with somewhat contradictory concepts such as Francophone or Hispanophone transnationalism,`world literature' and globalization. This seems even more paradoxical given that several Francophone writers, including Maryse Condé and Edouard Glissant, have set their novels in non-Francophone countries. My dissertation undertakes translinguistic literary criticism in order to address this gap in critical discourse.
I limit my focus to what I term the Atlantic world economy, that is, the countries touched by the Atlantic triangle and marked by a history of population displacement and cultural mixing inaugurated through colonial slavery. The authors I have selected position their work in the Atlantic framework. Some more explicitly, like Fatou Diome whose novel is entitled The belly of the Atlantic. Others, like Maryse Condé and Roberto Bolaño, by moving protagonists between some of the major centers of the Atlantic economy. They all, however, pose the question of a globalized Atlantic, distancing themselves from the Atlantic as a triangular space, and reframing it as a space encompassing many poles. The notion of the globalized Atlantic further underscores the tension between a regional framework and a globalized world within which these authors are operating.
At the turn of the 21st century movements resisting the effects of global capitalism have come into existence in several countries, including Egypt, Chile, the United States, Brazil and Turkey. These modes of activism require us to recalibrate some of our geopolitical categories as a way of thinking about transnational citizenship. The authors in my corpus deploy literary
strategies that complement the activism of global socioeconomic and political movements. This dissertation focuses on their imagining of narrative fiction as a space that is both globalized and resistant to the dominant political and…
Subjects/Keywords: Fiction; Globalization in literature; Globalization – Economic aspects; Comparative literature; Caribbean literature; Latin American literature
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Perisic, A. (2014). Contesting Globalization: Ethics, Politics, and Aesthetics in the Atlantic World Economy. (Doctoral Dissertation). Columbia University. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.7916/D8JD4TXP
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Perisic, Alexandra. “Contesting Globalization: Ethics, Politics, and Aesthetics in the Atlantic World Economy.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, Columbia University. Accessed January 19, 2021.
https://doi.org/10.7916/D8JD4TXP.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Perisic, Alexandra. “Contesting Globalization: Ethics, Politics, and Aesthetics in the Atlantic World Economy.” 2014. Web. 19 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Perisic A. Contesting Globalization: Ethics, Politics, and Aesthetics in the Atlantic World Economy. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Columbia University; 2014. [cited 2021 Jan 19].
Available from: https://doi.org/10.7916/D8JD4TXP.
Council of Science Editors:
Perisic A. Contesting Globalization: Ethics, Politics, and Aesthetics in the Atlantic World Economy. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Columbia University; 2014. Available from: https://doi.org/10.7916/D8JD4TXP

Arizona State University
3.
Bump, Nathaniel John.
Fiscal Morality and the State: Commerce, Law, and Taxation
in Middle English Popular Romance.
Degree: English, 2015, Arizona State University
URL: http://repository.asu.edu/items/36026
► As a contribution to what has emerged categorically in medieval scholarship as gentry studies, this dissertation looks at the impact the development of obligatory taxation…
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▼ As a contribution to what has emerged categorically in
medieval scholarship as gentry studies, this dissertation looks at
the impact the development of obligatory taxation beyond customary
dues and fees had on late medieval English society with particular
emphasis given to the emergent view of the medieval subject as a
commercial-legal entity. Focusing on Middle English popular romance
and drawing on the tenets of practice theory, I demonstrate the
merger of commerce and law as a point of identification in the
process of meaning and value making for late medieval gentry
society. The introductory chapter provides an overview of the
historical development of taxation and the emergence of royal
authority as an institutionalized form of public welfare, or a
state. The second chapter examines the use of contractual language
in Sir Amadace to highlight the presence of the state as an
extra-legal authority able to enforce contractual agreements. The
attention paid to the consequences of economic insolvency stage a
gentry identity circumscribed by its position in a network of
credit and debt that links the individual to neighbor, state, and
God. The third chapter explores conservative responses to economic
innovation during the period and the failure of the state to
protect the proprietary rights of landowners in Sir Cleges.
Specifically, the chapter examines the strain the gradual
re-definition of land as a movable property put on the proprietary
rights of landowners and challenged the traditional manorial
organization of feudal society by subjecting large estates to
morcellation in the commercial market. The fourth chapter examines
the socioeconomic foundations of late medieval English sovereignty
in Sir Gawain and the Carle of Carlisle. By dismissing the cultural
fantasies of power and authority bound up in the Arthurian
narrative, the author reveals the practical economic mechanisms of
exchange that sustain and legitimize sociopolitical authority,
resulting in a corporate vision of English society. Collectively,
the analyses demonstrate the influence the socioeconomic
circumstances of gentry society exerted on the production and
consumption of Middle English popular romance and the importance of
commerce, law, and taxation in the formation of a sense of self in
late medieval England.
Subjects/Keywords: English literature; Medieval literature; Economic history; Law; Middle English; Romance
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Bump, N. J. (2015). Fiscal Morality and the State: Commerce, Law, and Taxation
in Middle English Popular Romance. (Doctoral Dissertation). Arizona State University. Retrieved from http://repository.asu.edu/items/36026
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Bump, Nathaniel John. “Fiscal Morality and the State: Commerce, Law, and Taxation
in Middle English Popular Romance.” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, Arizona State University. Accessed January 19, 2021.
http://repository.asu.edu/items/36026.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Bump, Nathaniel John. “Fiscal Morality and the State: Commerce, Law, and Taxation
in Middle English Popular Romance.” 2015. Web. 19 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Bump NJ. Fiscal Morality and the State: Commerce, Law, and Taxation
in Middle English Popular Romance. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Arizona State University; 2015. [cited 2021 Jan 19].
Available from: http://repository.asu.edu/items/36026.
Council of Science Editors:
Bump NJ. Fiscal Morality and the State: Commerce, Law, and Taxation
in Middle English Popular Romance. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Arizona State University; 2015. Available from: http://repository.asu.edu/items/36026

Columbia University
4.
Kapilevich, Inna.
Spaces of Servitude: Servant, Master, and the Negotiation of Spatial Economies in the Nineteenth-century Russian novel.
Degree: 2020, Columbia University
URL: https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-48jn-4s96
► This dissertation examines a marginal group in Russian history and literature, domestic servants (dvorovye liudi)— proprietary peasants taken by their masters into the house to…
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▼ This dissertation examines a marginal group in Russian history and literature, domestic servants (dvorovye liudi)— proprietary peasants taken by their masters into the house to fulfill a variety of service roles. I consider this character group as an artistic device, an ideological signifier that draws upon a cluster of reader’s associations, and as a group deeply connected to the master class, the noblemen (dvoriane). Historically, the two were interconnected for generations, sharing domestic space, blood, history, and mutual interests. I argue that contrary to their historical prototypes, the Russian literary master and servant are interdependent, with both participants acutely aware of each other, allowing the implied author to use each to comment on the other and the wider social context of their relations. As the Emancipation (1861) approached, the literary portrayal of the shifting relations between these two groups began to signal the massive changes that shook Russian society during the long nineteenth century. These shifts were often depicted in spatial terms in literary works, with master and servant perpetually re-negotiating their mutual positions within limited spatial economies, most prominently, in the gentry house.
Domestic space, where masters and servants coexist and which serves as a microcosm of Russian society, is the ideal space in which authors can navigate unstable social relationships and work out potential solutions to their conflicts. The domestic stage can stand in for the political or social one. How servants navigate space in their master’s home gives clues to the broader issues authors address in their narratives.
My dissertation is structured according to the space most significant for the relationship between master and servant: the bedroom or nursery (Introduction), on the road (Chapter 1), private-public space (Chapter 2), and absence of space (Chapter 3). The Conclusion examines the increasing danger of the intimate and often inappropriate proximity of servant and master when combined with irreconcilable class differences and a steadfast resistance from those in power to the redistribution of space. I turn to works of Tolstoy, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Goncharov, Turgenev, Chekhov, and Bunin to examine these spaces.
Embedded in historical context, my project addresses the ramifications of the Emancipation and gestures forward to the historical events of the twentieth century. When high expectations for radical redistribution of resources and status were frustrated, transgression and then violence became the means for servants’ mobility, social and spatial. Russian literature from the “long nineteenth-century” captured the instability of the renegotiations of rights and resources between masters and servants. My conclusion sees the gentry house collapse as a result of these clashes.
Subjects/Keywords: Slavic literature; Russian literature; History; Economic history; Master and servant in literature; Household employees in literature
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Kapilevich, I. (2020). Spaces of Servitude: Servant, Master, and the Negotiation of Spatial Economies in the Nineteenth-century Russian novel. (Doctoral Dissertation). Columbia University. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-48jn-4s96
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Kapilevich, Inna. “Spaces of Servitude: Servant, Master, and the Negotiation of Spatial Economies in the Nineteenth-century Russian novel.” 2020. Doctoral Dissertation, Columbia University. Accessed January 19, 2021.
https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-48jn-4s96.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Kapilevich, Inna. “Spaces of Servitude: Servant, Master, and the Negotiation of Spatial Economies in the Nineteenth-century Russian novel.” 2020. Web. 19 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Kapilevich I. Spaces of Servitude: Servant, Master, and the Negotiation of Spatial Economies in the Nineteenth-century Russian novel. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Columbia University; 2020. [cited 2021 Jan 19].
Available from: https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-48jn-4s96.
Council of Science Editors:
Kapilevich I. Spaces of Servitude: Servant, Master, and the Negotiation of Spatial Economies in the Nineteenth-century Russian novel. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Columbia University; 2020. Available from: https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-48jn-4s96

University of Washington
5.
Morgan, Paige Courtney.
Haggling With the Muses: Negotiating Value in 18th Century English Poetry.
Degree: PhD, 2014, University of Washington
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1773/26260
► "Haggling With the Muses: Negotiating Value in 18th Century English Poetry" argues that English poets writing in the 1730s and 1740s were substantially engaged with…
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▼ "Haggling With the Muses: Negotiating Value in 18th Century English Poetry" argues that English poets writing in the 1730s and 1740s were substantially engaged with the emergent
economic system as a result of their professional aspirations. In particular, I present an in-depth examination and reading of Edward Young's Night Thoughts, and show how Young channeled his frustrations at his lack of success into imagining an
economic system that would privilege his own efforts. Young's poetry grapples with the concept of labor value vs. market value, the meaning of capital, and what it means to be an
economic individual. His use of religious idiom enhances the complexity of his imagined system. Night Thoughts is part of the so-called Graveyard School; and in this dissertation, I investigate whether Young's engagement with economics was an isolated phenomenon, or a more widespread aspect of poetry from this period. Specifically, I examine the works of Thomas Parnell, James Thomson, and William Shenstone. I also explore the concepts of otherworldliness and virtue, both of which have been strongly associated with graveyard poetry. Earlier studies of eighteenth-century verse have often treated poems from the Graveyard School as products of simplistic religious piety, and as a transitional point between the high wit of the early eighteenth century and Romanticism. My research indicates that it is essential to the
economic and professional situations of poets in order to understand the concerns that are likely to appear in their verse. I argue that eighteenth-century reading practices encouraged readers to extract short excerpts of verse for epigraphs and commonplace books, and that these activities obscured the
economic content of Night Thoughts, and were responsible for the reputation of Young and his contemporaries as authors of melancholic Christian verse.
Advisors/Committee Members: Brown, Marshall J. (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Book History; British Poetry; 1700-1799; Economic History; Religious History; Literature; Economic history; english
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Morgan, P. C. (2014). Haggling With the Muses: Negotiating Value in 18th Century English Poetry. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Washington. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1773/26260
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Morgan, Paige Courtney. “Haggling With the Muses: Negotiating Value in 18th Century English Poetry.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Washington. Accessed January 19, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1773/26260.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Morgan, Paige Courtney. “Haggling With the Muses: Negotiating Value in 18th Century English Poetry.” 2014. Web. 19 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Morgan PC. Haggling With the Muses: Negotiating Value in 18th Century English Poetry. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Washington; 2014. [cited 2021 Jan 19].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1773/26260.
Council of Science Editors:
Morgan PC. Haggling With the Muses: Negotiating Value in 18th Century English Poetry. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Washington; 2014. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1773/26260

University of Washington
6.
Morgan, Paige Courtney.
Haggling With the Muses: Negotiating Value in 18th Century English Poetry.
Degree: PhD, 2014, University of Washington
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1773/26691
► "Haggling With the Muses: Negotiating Value in 18th Century English Poetry" argues that English poets writing in the 1730s and 1740s were substantially engaged with…
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▼ "Haggling With the Muses: Negotiating Value in 18th Century English Poetry" argues that English poets writing in the 1730s and 1740s were substantially engaged with the emergent
economic system as a result of their professional aspirations. In particular, I present an in-depth examination and reading of Edward Young's Night Thoughts, and show how Young channeled his frustrations at his lack of success into imagining an
economic system that would privilege his own efforts. Young's poetry grapples with the concept of labor value vs. market value, the meaning of capital, and what it means to be an
economic individual. His use of religious idiom enhances the complexity of his imagined system. Night Thoughts is part of the so-called Graveyard School; and in this dissertation, I investigate whether Young's engagement with economics was an isolated phenomenon, or a more widespread aspect of poetry from this period. Specifically, I examine the works of Thomas Parnell, James Thomson, and William Shenstone. I also explore the concepts of otherworldliness and virtue, both of which have been strongly associated with graveyard poetry. Earlier studies of eighteenth-century verse have often treated poems from the Graveyard School as products of simplistic religious piety, and as a transitional point between the high wit of the early eighteenth century and Romanticism. My research indicates that it is essential to the
economic and professional situations of poets in order to understand the concerns that are likely to appear in their verse. I argue that eighteenth-century reading practices encouraged readers to extract short excerpts of verse for epigraphs and commonplace books, and that these activities obscured the
economic content of Night Thoughts, and were responsible for the reputation of Young and his contemporaries as authors of melancholic Christian verse.
Advisors/Committee Members: Brown, Marshall J. (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Book History; British Poetry; 1700-1799; Economic History; Religious History; Literature; Economic history; english
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Morgan, P. C. (2014). Haggling With the Muses: Negotiating Value in 18th Century English Poetry. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Washington. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1773/26691
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Morgan, Paige Courtney. “Haggling With the Muses: Negotiating Value in 18th Century English Poetry.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Washington. Accessed January 19, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1773/26691.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Morgan, Paige Courtney. “Haggling With the Muses: Negotiating Value in 18th Century English Poetry.” 2014. Web. 19 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Morgan PC. Haggling With the Muses: Negotiating Value in 18th Century English Poetry. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Washington; 2014. [cited 2021 Jan 19].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1773/26691.
Council of Science Editors:
Morgan PC. Haggling With the Muses: Negotiating Value in 18th Century English Poetry. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Washington; 2014. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1773/26691

The Ohio State University
7.
Kopec, Andrew.
Economic Crisis and American Literature, 1819-1857.
Degree: PhD, English, 2013, The Ohio State University
URL: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1365760287
► My dissertation demonstrates how literary responses to the United States’ first widespread financial crises—the Panics of 1819, 1837, and 1857—gave form to the abstract…
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▼ My dissertation demonstrates how literary
responses to the United States’ first widespread financial
crises—the Panics of 1819, 1837, and 1857—gave form to the abstract
but increasingly violent forces governing the brave new
economic
world. Previous
economic critics, working under the rubric of the
New Historicism, tend to emphasize how
literature rehearses
arguments about the U.S. economy at the level of theme or plot.
Such scholarship, however, obscures how literary form itself
conveys
economic policy. Over the course of this project’s five
chapters, I argue that Washington Irving’s picturesque sketches
(1819-20), James Fenimore Cooper’s discursive romances (1821-23),
Ralph Waldo Emerson’s transcendentalist addresses (1837), Catharine
Maria Sedgwick’s didactic allegories (1836-37), and Herman
Melville’s anti-novel (1857) are fundamentally concerned with the
economic problems of panics, including excess, abundance, and
scarcity. Literary engagement with panic
reveals itself, for example, in the sprawling style of Cooper’s The
Spy advocates the expansion of free trade to spur the economy in
the early 1820s. Performing opposite work, the carefully controlled
allegory of Sedgwick’s “Who, and What, Has Not Failed” attempts to
contain the rapid growth of the money supply in 1837. Most
radically, Melville’s The Confidence-Man, in resisting narrative
closure, belies the blind optimism in market outcomes driving
investment in 1857. Through readings of an array of panic-era
literature, then, this project concludes that the coincidence of
crises and important moments in U.S. literary history, typically
mentioned in standard histories as incidental, is no accident:
financial distress demanded artistry, and
literature thrived as the
market crashed.
Advisors/Committee Members: Hewitt, Elizabeth (Advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: American Literature; Economic History; American Literature; Economic History; Antebellum America; the History of Capitalism; Literary Theory
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Kopec, A. (2013). Economic Crisis and American Literature, 1819-1857. (Doctoral Dissertation). The Ohio State University. Retrieved from http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1365760287
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Kopec, Andrew. “Economic Crisis and American Literature, 1819-1857.” 2013. Doctoral Dissertation, The Ohio State University. Accessed January 19, 2021.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1365760287.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Kopec, Andrew. “Economic Crisis and American Literature, 1819-1857.” 2013. Web. 19 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Kopec A. Economic Crisis and American Literature, 1819-1857. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. The Ohio State University; 2013. [cited 2021 Jan 19].
Available from: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1365760287.
Council of Science Editors:
Kopec A. Economic Crisis and American Literature, 1819-1857. [Doctoral Dissertation]. The Ohio State University; 2013. Available from: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1365760287

University of Illinois – Chicago
8.
Douglas, Jason G.
Marginal Cost: The Business Novel and the Invention of Modern Economics.
Degree: 2017, University of Illinois – Chicago
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10027/22008
► My dissertation begins with the possibility and implications of identifying a body of literature that is in some essential way, economic literature. In particular, I…
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▼ My dissertation begins with the possibility and implications of identifying a body of
literature that is in some essential way,
economic literature. In particular, I examine the history of business novels and the businessman as our most common and overt ways of representing the economy in
literature. Looking beyond the traditional friction between aesthetic and commercial systems of value, I seek to identify the ways in which the features of business novels that so often lead to their status as minor novel arise from tension between the constructed nature of narrative and theories of the economy as spontaneously ordered.
In “The Emergence of the Businessman in the American Novel” I argue that literary representations of the businessman developed in parallel, during the second-half of the nineteenth century, with the transformation and expansion of the concept of work to include professional management as a potential but contested form of productive labor.
Identifying the early use of business management as a potential solution to problems of debt repayment and labor pricing, I examine the way that scarcity become a driving tension for business novels. In “A Romance of Scarcity” I describe the dual tendency of business novels to produce their plot in terms of managing scarcity and also to retreat from such problems in order to arrive at the kind of resolution conventional to novels of the era.
During the post-Gilded Age era, when businessmen became primarily characterized as captains of industry, I argue that the misidentification of determinist
economic theories hampers our ability to understand naturalistic accounts of the economy as a way of representing the economy as non-deterministic. “Literary Naturalism and
Economic Calculability” suggests that early twentieth-century theories about the impossibility of
economic calculation outline some of the same beliefs and conditions described in
literature as giving rise to the economy as unknowable and unpredictable.
Examining the way that current discourses on class difference and inequality tend to overwrite older accounts that figure industrial poverty in terms of constraints. “From Phelps to Piketty” outlines the way in which certain literary representations of beliefs about the relationship between capital and labor are better explained by a certain kind of marginal thinking rather than the consolidation of class interests.
Finally, in “We Don’t Need Another Hero,” I argue that anti-formalist
economic arguments about the impossibly of
economic expertise are part of the essential, conceptual context for understanding the way that some post WWII business novels problematically resist the notion of heroism in business and yet do so using enough conventional tropes of business success stories to make that resistance difficult to identify.
Ultimately, I suggest that combining literary and
economic notions of marginality can help explain the simultaneous affinity and tension within narrative representations of the economy.
Advisors/Committee Members: Michaels, Walter B (advisor), McCloskey, Deirdre N (committee member), Cintron, Ralph (committee member), Clarke, Ainsworth A (committee member), Storr, Virgil (committee member), Michaels, Walter B (chair).
Subjects/Keywords: economic criticism; economic theory; economics; literature; business novel; theory of the novel; marginal novel; economic narrative; business stories
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Douglas, J. G. (2017). Marginal Cost: The Business Novel and the Invention of Modern Economics. (Thesis). University of Illinois – Chicago. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10027/22008
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Douglas, Jason G. “Marginal Cost: The Business Novel and the Invention of Modern Economics.” 2017. Thesis, University of Illinois – Chicago. Accessed January 19, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/10027/22008.
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Douglas, Jason G. “Marginal Cost: The Business Novel and the Invention of Modern Economics.” 2017. Web. 19 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Douglas JG. Marginal Cost: The Business Novel and the Invention of Modern Economics. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Illinois – Chicago; 2017. [cited 2021 Jan 19].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10027/22008.
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Douglas JG. Marginal Cost: The Business Novel and the Invention of Modern Economics. [Thesis]. University of Illinois – Chicago; 2017. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10027/22008
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
9.
Sundar, Tallury Syama.
Gandhian economic ideals and planned economic development
of India , a focus on some specific aspects; -.
Degree: Economics, 1993, North-Eastern Hill University
URL: http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/55515
Abstract not available newline
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Bibliography p. 96
Advisors/Committee Members: Mishra, S K.
Subjects/Keywords: Economic; Aspects; Multifaceted; Literature;
Accomplished
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Sundar, T. S. (1993). Gandhian economic ideals and planned economic development
of India , a focus on some specific aspects; -. (Thesis). North-Eastern Hill University. Retrieved from http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/55515
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Sundar, Tallury Syama. “Gandhian economic ideals and planned economic development
of India , a focus on some specific aspects; -.” 1993. Thesis, North-Eastern Hill University. Accessed January 19, 2021.
http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/55515.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Sundar, Tallury Syama. “Gandhian economic ideals and planned economic development
of India , a focus on some specific aspects; -.” 1993. Web. 19 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Sundar TS. Gandhian economic ideals and planned economic development
of India , a focus on some specific aspects; -. [Internet] [Thesis]. North-Eastern Hill University; 1993. [cited 2021 Jan 19].
Available from: http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/55515.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Sundar TS. Gandhian economic ideals and planned economic development
of India , a focus on some specific aspects; -. [Thesis]. North-Eastern Hill University; 1993. Available from: http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/55515
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
10.
Rahman, Aqilur.
Western impact on the modern egyptian society after
napoleon_s invasion of Egypt; -.
Degree: Islamic Studies, 1972, Aligarh Muslim University
URL: http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/55700
Abstract available newline newline
Bibliography p. 252-274
Advisors/Committee Members: Ali, Amjad.
Subjects/Keywords: Society; Civilizations; Technology; Literature;
Economic
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Rahman, A. (1972). Western impact on the modern egyptian society after
napoleon_s invasion of Egypt; -. (Thesis). Aligarh Muslim University. Retrieved from http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/55700
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
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Rahman, Aqilur. “Western impact on the modern egyptian society after
napoleon_s invasion of Egypt; -.” 1972. Thesis, Aligarh Muslim University. Accessed January 19, 2021.
http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/55700.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Rahman, Aqilur. “Western impact on the modern egyptian society after
napoleon_s invasion of Egypt; -.” 1972. Web. 19 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Rahman A. Western impact on the modern egyptian society after
napoleon_s invasion of Egypt; -. [Internet] [Thesis]. Aligarh Muslim University; 1972. [cited 2021 Jan 19].
Available from: http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/55700.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Rahman A. Western impact on the modern egyptian society after
napoleon_s invasion of Egypt; -. [Thesis]. Aligarh Muslim University; 1972. Available from: http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/55700
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
11.
Gupta, Sunita.
Swatantryottar - hindi kahaniyon mein aarthik sangharsh
ki abhivyakti (स्वातंत्र्योत्तर - हिंदी कहानियों में आर्थिक संघर्ष
की अभिव्यक्ति); -.
Degree: Hindi, 1999, Bundelkhand University
URL: http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/10808
None
References p. 297-307
Advisors/Committee Members: Tripathi, Uday.
Subjects/Keywords: Hindi literature; Economic condition
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Gupta, S. (1999). Swatantryottar - hindi kahaniyon mein aarthik sangharsh
ki abhivyakti (स्वातंत्र्योत्तर - हिंदी कहानियों में आर्थिक संघर्ष
की अभिव्यक्ति); -. (Thesis). Bundelkhand University. Retrieved from http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/10808
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Gupta, Sunita. “Swatantryottar - hindi kahaniyon mein aarthik sangharsh
ki abhivyakti (स्वातंत्र्योत्तर - हिंदी कहानियों में आर्थिक संघर्ष
की अभिव्यक्ति); -.” 1999. Thesis, Bundelkhand University. Accessed January 19, 2021.
http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/10808.
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MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Gupta, Sunita. “Swatantryottar - hindi kahaniyon mein aarthik sangharsh
ki abhivyakti (स्वातंत्र्योत्तर - हिंदी कहानियों में आर्थिक संघर्ष
की अभिव्यक्ति); -.” 1999. Web. 19 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Gupta S. Swatantryottar - hindi kahaniyon mein aarthik sangharsh
ki abhivyakti (स्वातंत्र्योत्तर - हिंदी कहानियों में आर्थिक संघर्ष
की अभिव्यक्ति); -. [Internet] [Thesis]. Bundelkhand University; 1999. [cited 2021 Jan 19].
Available from: http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/10808.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Gupta S. Swatantryottar - hindi kahaniyon mein aarthik sangharsh
ki abhivyakti (स्वातंत्र्योत्तर - हिंदी कहानियों में आर्थिक संघर्ष
की अभिव्यक्ति); -. [Thesis]. Bundelkhand University; 1999. Available from: http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/10808
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12.
Naeem, Nasir.
Impact of incentives on industrial development of
backward areas in Uttar Pradesh; -.
Degree: Commerce, 1998, Aligarh Muslim University
URL: http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/53000
Abstract available newline newline
Summary p. 343-387, Bibliography given, Appendix
given
Advisors/Committee Members: Khairoowala, Ziauddin.
Subjects/Keywords: Industrial; Ecology; Policies; Economic;
Literature
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Naeem, N. (1998). Impact of incentives on industrial development of
backward areas in Uttar Pradesh; -. (Thesis). Aligarh Muslim University. Retrieved from http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/53000
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
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Naeem, Nasir. “Impact of incentives on industrial development of
backward areas in Uttar Pradesh; -.” 1998. Thesis, Aligarh Muslim University. Accessed January 19, 2021.
http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/53000.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Naeem, Nasir. “Impact of incentives on industrial development of
backward areas in Uttar Pradesh; -.” 1998. Web. 19 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Naeem N. Impact of incentives on industrial development of
backward areas in Uttar Pradesh; -. [Internet] [Thesis]. Aligarh Muslim University; 1998. [cited 2021 Jan 19].
Available from: http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/53000.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Naeem N. Impact of incentives on industrial development of
backward areas in Uttar Pradesh; -. [Thesis]. Aligarh Muslim University; 1998. Available from: http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/53000
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Columbia University
13.
VanWagoner, Benjamin D.
Doubtful Gains: Risk in Early Modern Maritime Drama, 1592–1625.
Degree: 2018, Columbia University
URL: https://doi.org/10.7916/D8Z33G88
► “Doubtful Gains” argues that the concept of economic risk emerged in the early modern theater through performances of maritime peril staged at a moment of…
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▼ “Doubtful Gains” argues that the concept of economic risk emerged in the early modern theater through performances of maritime peril staged at a moment of unprecedented growth for English venturing. Even as the hazards of global commerce became increasingly apparent, there existed no expression in English for risk, nor the inchoate logic by which early modern merchants attempted to manage their voyages’ losses. Yet my study shows that oceanic hazards are repeatedly worked over in “maritime drama,” an under-recognized cross-section of plays concerned with the sea, staged between the founding of the Levant Company in 1592 and the end of the Jacobean era in 1625. While the prevailing scholarly narrative has limited early modern uncertainty to inscrutable forms of “chance,” “accident,” and religious “providence,” my study shows how otherwise fragmentary knowledge was ordered in performance, implicating theater audiences in the management of new forms of uncertainty.
Recovering the emergence of risk on the early modern stage has demanded not only the analysis of a new corpus of maritime drama, but a sophisticated account of economic history constructed from the archives of English joint-stock companies and attentive to the anachronism of modern risk theory. Shakespeare’s plays, at the center of my study, are complemented by the work of Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Phillip Massinger, William Haughton, and Robert Daborne, as well as a diverse collection of prose texts. I draw on pamphlets of mercantile policy, voyage journals, and charters, and a specialized archive of financial and navigational records. Constructing an archive of plays and prose that engage with an increasingly commercial global ocean, I argue that theatrical representations of maritime hazard precipitated a new discourse of risk in early modern England.
Each of my four chapters shows how the theater helped shape one of those forms, which I term “maritime risks.” Scenes of shipwreck, piracy, enslavement, and news connected English venturing to economic vulnerability in increasingly systematic ways, helping to develop the logic of uncertainty which would come to be codified as economic risk. Shipwreck scenes in The Comedy of Errors, Eastward Ho, and The Tempest exemplify the period’s most typical hazard, demonstrating how spectators of shipwreck are central to reproducing the risk of disaster at sea. Encounters with pirates in 2 Henry VI, Hamlet, and Daborne’s A Christian Turn’d Turke establish risk within the many forms of negotiation demanded by early modern ventures, and the enslavement of Ithamore in Marlowe’s Jew of Malta launches my analysis of the risk to human agency posed by the sex trade in Shakespeare’s Pericles, Prince of Tyre. Finally, I address news of financial loss in Merchant of Venice and Haughton’s Englishmen for My Money, showing how risk manifests through the unreliability of staged merchant correspondence. The notion of maritime risk that emerges from these plays builds on contemporary oceanic studies…
Subjects/Keywords: English literature; Theater; Economic history; Risk; Naval art and science
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VanWagoner, B. D. (2018). Doubtful Gains: Risk in Early Modern Maritime Drama, 1592–1625. (Doctoral Dissertation). Columbia University. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.7916/D8Z33G88
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
VanWagoner, Benjamin D. “Doubtful Gains: Risk in Early Modern Maritime Drama, 1592–1625.” 2018. Doctoral Dissertation, Columbia University. Accessed January 19, 2021.
https://doi.org/10.7916/D8Z33G88.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
VanWagoner, Benjamin D. “Doubtful Gains: Risk in Early Modern Maritime Drama, 1592–1625.” 2018. Web. 19 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
VanWagoner BD. Doubtful Gains: Risk in Early Modern Maritime Drama, 1592–1625. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Columbia University; 2018. [cited 2021 Jan 19].
Available from: https://doi.org/10.7916/D8Z33G88.
Council of Science Editors:
VanWagoner BD. Doubtful Gains: Risk in Early Modern Maritime Drama, 1592–1625. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Columbia University; 2018. Available from: https://doi.org/10.7916/D8Z33G88

University of Colorado
14.
Lindquist, Andrew S.
Reading Economic Disposability: The Function(s) of Waste in Literary Systems of Exchange.
Degree: MA, English, 2015, University of Colorado
URL: https://scholar.colorado.edu/engl_gradetds/80
► Despite the attention paid by economists and journalists to the abundance of material garbage in recent years, few conceptual understandings of the term "waste"…
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▼ Despite the attention paid by economists and journalists to the abundance of material garbage in recent years, few conceptual understandings of the term "waste" as a socio-
economic function are offered in
economic discourse. Essentially, waste is treated as the unwanted-but-inevitable byproduct of otherwise beneficial productive processes. But as a few scholars, authors and general critics of the capitalist world economy have implied, the increasing production of waste and garbage (in both material and social senses) over the past century is not simply an inevitable and unfortunate side effect of a capitalist mode of production but in fact its primary operating logic. As a thorough examination of the development of capitalism into what Immanuel Wallerstein has termed a "world-system" demonstrates, the primacy of capital accumulation, one of the essential principles of contemporary capitalist production, is accompanied by a complementary logic of disposability. Any solutions to or methods of ameliorating the ceaseless production of waste provided by contemporary economists are thus formed upon these very principles. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the
economic systems inscribed in the novels of William Gaddis, Thomas Pynchon and Eric Gansworth, and to examine the convergences and divergences between these systems and those articulated within the discourse of contemporary economics. In
J R,
Gravity’s Rainbow and
Smoke Dancing, Gaddis, Pynchon and Gansworth each construct, critique and satirize capitalist
economic models, particularly insofar as each author’s model is driven by such a logic of disposability. In so doing, the authors in turn confront the global system of the production and dissemination of
literature, constituting a “world-system” in and of itself. The inherence of disposability within the logic of capitalism, made so clear by each of these authors, demonstrates the significance (and, indeed, the urgency) of establishing alternative frameworks of
economic discourse. I argue, then, that works of
literature can (and do) play fundamental roles in discussions on contemporary and historical economics.
Advisors/Committee Members: Penelope Kelsey, Karen Jacobs, Karim Mattar.
Subjects/Keywords: Indigenous; reservation; trash; consumer; production; American Literature; Economic Theory
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Lindquist, A. S. (2015). Reading Economic Disposability: The Function(s) of Waste in Literary Systems of Exchange. (Masters Thesis). University of Colorado. Retrieved from https://scholar.colorado.edu/engl_gradetds/80
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Lindquist, Andrew S. “Reading Economic Disposability: The Function(s) of Waste in Literary Systems of Exchange.” 2015. Masters Thesis, University of Colorado. Accessed January 19, 2021.
https://scholar.colorado.edu/engl_gradetds/80.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Lindquist, Andrew S. “Reading Economic Disposability: The Function(s) of Waste in Literary Systems of Exchange.” 2015. Web. 19 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Lindquist AS. Reading Economic Disposability: The Function(s) of Waste in Literary Systems of Exchange. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. University of Colorado; 2015. [cited 2021 Jan 19].
Available from: https://scholar.colorado.edu/engl_gradetds/80.
Council of Science Editors:
Lindquist AS. Reading Economic Disposability: The Function(s) of Waste in Literary Systems of Exchange. [Masters Thesis]. University of Colorado; 2015. Available from: https://scholar.colorado.edu/engl_gradetds/80
15.
Rosenthall, Karen.
Novel Economies: A Literary Pre-History of U.S. Commercial Capitalism, 1730-1859.
Degree: PhD, Humanities, 2017, Rice University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1911/105465
► “Novel Economies” demonstrates that American literature played a fundamental role in enabling large-scale economic change in the United States, namely it helped acclimate and introduce…
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▼ “Novel Economies” demonstrates that American
literature played a fundamental role in enabling large-scale
economic change in the United States, namely it helped acclimate and introduce the reading public to the virtues of commercial exchange and industrial production. Although current scholarship on early American
literature assumes that
literature either reacts to or chronicles the public’s understanding of the shifting terms of
economic progress in the young nation, “Novel Economies” argues that
literature enabled the U.S.’s turn towards commercial capitalism by adapting the productive practices associated with republican virtue. American authors redefined the labor practices that were supposed to ensure national strength and stability. With an archive that ranges from Benjamin Franklin’s
economic treatises and belle lettres to Ralph Waldo Emerson’s public addresses and popular writings, “Novel Economies” highlights literature’s role in constructing a direct link between profitability, productivity, and virtue in the minds of American readers.
“Novel Economies” explores a variety of literary genres and texts to illustrate the ways American authors engaged with and challenged the values of
economic republicanism. By beginning with texts of the early Republic, such as Franklin’s Autobiography and Stephen Burroughs’ Memoirs, this project illuminates the ways that the terms of American republicanism underwrite literary presentations of citizenship, productive labor, and the individual’s relationship to public and private institutions. The impact of literature’s engagement with the ideals of republicanism is manifested in Martha Meredith Read’s and Sarah Savage’s seduction and sentimental fiction and James Fenimore Cooper’s historical romances; genres that transform in order to adapt republican values and definitions of virtue to fit the United States’ changing socioeconomic and political climates. Finally, “Novel Economies” turns to the United States on the brink of disunion with Emerson’s public speeches and Nathaniel Beverly Tucker’s secessionist fiction, illustrating the ways
economic republican values served as a rhetorical touchstone for the political arguments made by both abolitionists and pro-slavery advocates. When the logics of
economic republicanism are highlighted as supporting both small-scale agrarianism and commercial capitalism, then literature’s investment in promulgating and adapting these ideals exposes narrative as a key catalyst to U.S.
economic change.
Advisors/Committee Members: Levander, Caroline F (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: American Literature; U.S. Economic History; Republicanism; Political Economy
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Rosenthall, K. (2017). Novel Economies: A Literary Pre-History of U.S. Commercial Capitalism, 1730-1859. (Doctoral Dissertation). Rice University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1911/105465
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Rosenthall, Karen. “Novel Economies: A Literary Pre-History of U.S. Commercial Capitalism, 1730-1859.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, Rice University. Accessed January 19, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1911/105465.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Rosenthall, Karen. “Novel Economies: A Literary Pre-History of U.S. Commercial Capitalism, 1730-1859.” 2017. Web. 19 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Rosenthall K. Novel Economies: A Literary Pre-History of U.S. Commercial Capitalism, 1730-1859. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Rice University; 2017. [cited 2021 Jan 19].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1911/105465.
Council of Science Editors:
Rosenthall K. Novel Economies: A Literary Pre-History of U.S. Commercial Capitalism, 1730-1859. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Rice University; 2017. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1911/105465

Princeton University
16.
Kilincoglu, Deniz Taner.
The Political Economy of Ottoman Modernity: Ottoman Economic Thought During the Reign of Abdülhamid II (1876-1909)
.
Degree: PhD, 2012, Princeton University
URL: http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp015d86p024n
► This dissertation is the first comprehensive and interdisciplinary study of Ottoman economic thought within the context of modernization during the reign of Abdülhamid II (1876-1909).…
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▼ This dissertation is the first comprehensive and interdisciplinary study of Ottoman
economic thought within the context of modernization during the reign of Abdülhamid II (1876-1909). Drawing on a broad array of primary sources ranging from textbooks and manuals of economics to memoirs and popular fiction, it offers a new account of late Ottoman history by discussing how
economic knowledge shaped Ottoman modernization in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
The main focus of this dissertation is the Ottoman elite's use of "
economic savoir" in formulating their strategy for saving the empire from downfall in the age of capitalist modernity. I first provide an overview of
economic and intellectual conditions that shaped the late Ottoman
economic mindset. Then, I investigate the patterns of transplantation of ideas from French and British political economy into the Muslim-Ottoman cultural-institutional setup. In the core chapters of the dissertation (Chapters 3, 4, and 5), I analyze Hamidian-era Ottoman
economic thought on three grounds: the objective of building an "
economic" society, the emergence of
economic nationalism, and the popularization of modern
economic principles through popular fiction.
Using an interdisciplinary approach to sources, I analyze various dimensions of the impact of "
economic thinking" on the episteme of Ottoman modernism and on the Ottoman public sphere in the late nineteenth century. Moreover, I question some deeply rooted assumptions such as the "primitiveness" of late Ottoman
economic thought and the mercantilistic nature of Hamidian-era protectionism by contextualizing and historicizing
economic ideas in the late Ottoman Empire.
Advisors/Committee Members: Hanioglu, M. Sukru (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Economics;
History of Economic Thought;
Literature;
Modernity;
Nineteenth Century;
Ottoman Empire
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. (Doctoral Dissertation). Princeton University. Retrieved from http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp015d86p024n
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Kilincoglu, Deniz Taner. “The Political Economy of Ottoman Modernity: Ottoman Economic Thought During the Reign of Abdülhamid II (1876-1909)
.” 2012. Doctoral Dissertation, Princeton University. Accessed January 19, 2021.
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp015d86p024n.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Kilincoglu, Deniz Taner. “The Political Economy of Ottoman Modernity: Ottoman Economic Thought During the Reign of Abdülhamid II (1876-1909)
.” 2012. Web. 19 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Kilincoglu DT. The Political Economy of Ottoman Modernity: Ottoman Economic Thought During the Reign of Abdülhamid II (1876-1909)
. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Princeton University; 2012. [cited 2021 Jan 19].
Available from: http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp015d86p024n.
Council of Science Editors:
Kilincoglu DT. The Political Economy of Ottoman Modernity: Ottoman Economic Thought During the Reign of Abdülhamid II (1876-1909)
. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Princeton University; 2012. Available from: http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp015d86p024n

University of Glasgow
17.
Swann, Adam.
'Nature’s coyn must not be hoorded': Milton and the economics of salvation, 1634-1674.
Degree: PhD, 2014, University of Glasgow
URL: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/4823/
► Milton’s use of economic tropes has attracted very little critical attention, and the connections between economics and theology in his thought have not yet been…
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▼ Milton’s use of economic tropes has attracted very little critical attention, and the connections between economics and theology in his thought have not yet been explored. Blair Hoxby’s Mammon’s Music: Literature and Economics in the Age of Milton (2002) focuses on the influence of economic ideas on Milton’s political thought, arguing that the poet persistently associates trade monopolies with autocratic abuses of monarchical power. David Hawkes places Milton’s lifelong professional usury at the centre of his 2009 biography, John Milton: A Hero of Our Time, and his 2011 essay, ‘Milton and Usury,’ fruitfully reads key passages from Paradise Lost in relation to contemporary tracts on usury. Hoxby and Hawkes have astutely highlighted the relationship between economics and Milton’s thought, but neither scholar has pursued these connections into Milton’s theology. Economic ideas lie at the very heart of Milton’s soteriology, and my thesis offers a historicised investigation of Milton’s corpus, demonstrating that the tropes of contemporary economic thought were crucial to his understanding of sin and, more importantly, salvation.
Chapter 1 traces the roots of this economic soteriology to the economic and theological treatises of the 1620s and early 1630s, which argued that money must be not stockpiled but circulated, and that salvation was a transaction between man and God. Chapter 2 considers how Ben Jonson and George Herbert, whose work Milton was familiar with in his youth, used The Staple of Newes (1626) and The Temple (1633) to respond to contemporary developments in economic and theological thought. Chapter 3 reads Milton’s early works as studies of hoarding and consumption, traced through the debate over sexual stockpiling in Comus (1634), the sinfulness of a hoarding nation in the History of Moscovia (early 1640s), and the clergy torn between their compulsions to covet and consume in Of Reformation (1641). Chapter 4 finds in Gerrard Winstanley’s Fire in the Bush (1650) an explicitly economic understanding of the Fall, and demonstrates how Milton’s political and religious writings of the 1650s betray an anxiety that the English cannot govern their economic appetites and, therefore, themselves. Chapter 5 examines how Milton uses tropes of investment, profit, loss, and repayment in the Christian Doctrine and Paradise Lost (1667) to represent redemption as a transaction between Jesus and God on man’s behalf. Chapter 6 reads the History of Britain (1670) as an indictment of isolationist economic policies, with Milton demonstrating that free interactions between peoples facilitate national refinement, and thus strangers become saviours.
Subjects/Keywords: BT Doctrinal Theology; HC Economic History and Conditions; PR English literature
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Swann, A. (2014). 'Nature’s coyn must not be hoorded': Milton and the economics of salvation, 1634-1674. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Glasgow. Retrieved from http://theses.gla.ac.uk/4823/
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Swann, Adam. “'Nature’s coyn must not be hoorded': Milton and the economics of salvation, 1634-1674.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Glasgow. Accessed January 19, 2021.
http://theses.gla.ac.uk/4823/.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Swann, Adam. “'Nature’s coyn must not be hoorded': Milton and the economics of salvation, 1634-1674.” 2014. Web. 19 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Swann A. 'Nature’s coyn must not be hoorded': Milton and the economics of salvation, 1634-1674. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Glasgow; 2014. [cited 2021 Jan 19].
Available from: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/4823/.
Council of Science Editors:
Swann A. 'Nature’s coyn must not be hoorded': Milton and the economics of salvation, 1634-1674. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Glasgow; 2014. Available from: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/4823/

University of Toronto
18.
Babych, Oleksiy.
Picking up the Pieces: The Economic Crisis and the Transformation of the Contemporary Peninsular Novel.
Degree: PhD, 2018, University of Toronto
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/91862
► This dissertation examines changes in the genre of the Peninsular novel resulting from the impact of the World Economic Crisis that deeply affected Spain beginning…
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▼ This dissertation examines changes in the genre of the Peninsular novel resulting from the impact of the World
Economic Crisis that deeply affected Spain beginning in 2008. It analyzes how the novels published in Spain between 2007 and 2014 by ten contemporary authors explore the causes of the
Economic Crisis and its impact on individuals, social structures, and patterns of relationships. Changes in the genre of the novel occur both on the levels of form and content. Through my initial analysis of novels by Pablo Gutiérrez, Doménico Chiappe, and Elvira Navarro, I argue that the Crisis changed the perception of public and private spaces in Spain. The real estate bubble and mass evictions laid foundations for new forms of participatory democracy such as squatters and later the 15M movement. I then build on the work of Berlant and Butler and explore categories of debt and precarity in novels by Recaredo Veredas, Benjamín Prado, and Javier López Menacho as fundamentals for the new emerging Crisis consciousness. Next, I consider the epic and symbolic nature of the Crisis as it is depicted in the novels of Rafael Chirbes. I contend that through multiple intertexts and an appeal to universal values, Chirbes inscribes the local Crisis in the national literary tradition and global context. Finally, I analyze how the texts by Lucía Extebarría, Cristina Fallarás, and Marta Caparrós depict the evolution from individual struggle to collective action. I show the transition from a reliance on failed social institutions to the creation of alternative networks of power and the social movements made possible through solidarity. I suggest that the
Economic Crisis as reflected through the lens of the novels analyzed has slowly transformed into a continuity in the present with no chronological end point. This shift has transformed the national worldview and resulted in the rejection of the idea of uninterrupted progress and constant development in Spain that rooted the national consciousness from the 1990s through to the early 2000s.
Advisors/Committee Members: Davidson, Robert A, Spanish.
Subjects/Keywords: Economic crisis; Genre transformation; Peninsular novel; Spanish literature; XXI century; 0298
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Babych, O. (2018). Picking up the Pieces: The Economic Crisis and the Transformation of the Contemporary Peninsular Novel. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Toronto. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1807/91862
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Babych, Oleksiy. “Picking up the Pieces: The Economic Crisis and the Transformation of the Contemporary Peninsular Novel.” 2018. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Toronto. Accessed January 19, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1807/91862.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Babych, Oleksiy. “Picking up the Pieces: The Economic Crisis and the Transformation of the Contemporary Peninsular Novel.” 2018. Web. 19 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Babych O. Picking up the Pieces: The Economic Crisis and the Transformation of the Contemporary Peninsular Novel. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Toronto; 2018. [cited 2021 Jan 19].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/91862.
Council of Science Editors:
Babych O. Picking up the Pieces: The Economic Crisis and the Transformation of the Contemporary Peninsular Novel. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Toronto; 2018. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/91862

University of Manchester
19.
Key, Laura Elizabeth Bekeris.
Face Value: Representations of Money in American
Literature, 1896-1944.
Degree: 2012, University of Manchester
URL: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/escholar/uk-ac-man-scw:181267
► This thesis analyses the significance of socio-historical conceptions of money in relation to the development of American literary modernism from 1896 to 1944. Taking as…
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▼ This thesis analyses the significance of
socio-historical conceptions of money in relation to the
development of American literary modernism from 1896 to 1944.
Taking as its starting point Jean-Joseph Goux’s contention that
there was a correlation between the end of gold-backed money in
France and the birth of French modernist
literature, this study
considers how far this claim is tenable in the American case. In
1896, the key debate surrounding the presidential election was over
whether money should be backed by gold or silver specie, which
became a major public issue. Faith in the gold standard was
challenged, raising the possibility that the source of monetary
value was negotiable. Subsequent policy changes, financial panics,
the Depression and the World Wars all affected public conceptions
of money, until the Bretton Woods Agreement instituted an
international gold standard supported by the gold-backed U.S.
dollar in 1944, effectively re-establishing a firm relationship
between gold and money. Since the 1990s, New
Economic Criticism has
sought to understand the ways in which money and
literature
converge throughout history. Although several studies of money and
American literary realism have been undertaken, the relationship
between money and American literary modernism specifically has
largely been overlooked in scholarship. Analysing the works of
Robert Herrick, Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald and John Dos
Passos, this thesis contends that a certain strand of American
modernism developed as a series of reflections upon the
relationship between money, value and realistic representation, in
which the limitations of realism are exposed. Calling for a
re-historicisation of the relationship between money and
literature, this study argues that particular socio-historical
moments in the story of American money emphasised the fluidity of
money, sending social conceptions of value into flux in a society
in which money functioned as the general equivalent by which all
values were measured. These moments when accepted face values were
called into question offered American writers the language and
structure by which to consider and challenge the limitations of
existing literary forms by comparing money with
literature. Both
paper money and
literature, forms of representation which function
via the inscription of words upon paper, contain an inherent
duality; they have both a material value, in terms of their
composition from paper and ink, and a deeper capacity to represent
a certain value in the society in which they circulate. Modernism
is concerned with such a duality, emphasising the materiality of
the text and exposing the text’s status as a representation that
can never equal the reality that it represents. The authors
discussed here confronted the discrepancy between written language
as a reflection of the real world and words as material constructs
in themselves through the metaphor of money, manifesting in both
textual theme and structure, where the boundaries of realist
representation are broken down via the…
Advisors/Committee Members: PEARL, MONICA M, Knight, Peter, Pearl, Monica.
Subjects/Keywords: money; American Literature; American Studies; 1896-1944; modernism; New Economic Criticism
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Key, L. E. B. (2012). Face Value: Representations of Money in American
Literature, 1896-1944. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Manchester. Retrieved from http://www.manchester.ac.uk/escholar/uk-ac-man-scw:181267
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Key, Laura Elizabeth Bekeris. “Face Value: Representations of Money in American
Literature, 1896-1944.” 2012. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Manchester. Accessed January 19, 2021.
http://www.manchester.ac.uk/escholar/uk-ac-man-scw:181267.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Key, Laura Elizabeth Bekeris. “Face Value: Representations of Money in American
Literature, 1896-1944.” 2012. Web. 19 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Key LEB. Face Value: Representations of Money in American
Literature, 1896-1944. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Manchester; 2012. [cited 2021 Jan 19].
Available from: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/escholar/uk-ac-man-scw:181267.
Council of Science Editors:
Key LEB. Face Value: Representations of Money in American
Literature, 1896-1944. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Manchester; 2012. Available from: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/escholar/uk-ac-man-scw:181267

University of Pennsylvania
20.
Pagett, Matthew Jon.
Money Plays: Performing Currency in Seventeenth-Century French Comedy.
Degree: 2013, University of Pennsylvania
URL: https://repository.upenn.edu/edissertations/786
► This dissertation studies money in French comedy from the late Renaissance to the early eighteenth century. It examines how comic theater, by showing new forms…
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▼ This dissertation studies money in French comedy from the late Renaissance to the early eighteenth century. It examines how comic theater, by showing new forms of money, reflected and problematized concepts of value, credit, and trust at a moment when France's financial and monetary system was rapidly evolving.
The first chapter provides an overview of money in Renaissance farces and comedies, and briefly examines treatments of the subject in other European literary traditions in this time period. It shows how farces presented a variety of simple currencies, and how comedy, with its more complex portrayals, developed out of this genre. The second chapter covers the period 1600-1670, when metallic currencies began to be portrayed in more detail, and comedies began to show interrogations of social and monetary value together. Chapter three focuses on 1670-1684, when a new generation of playwrights brought paper money onto the stage where it took on a new dramatic role as bearer of value. The fourth chapter examines the years 1685-1700, an increasingly difficult time for the French economy, when paper money was manipulated in concurrence with portrayals of "counterfeit" noblemen, the kind of dual counterfeiting that the stage was ideally suited to portray. The final chapter covers the years 1700-1720, the period just prior to the John Law affair, when the stage was used to show full-scale financial systems in the hands of individuals of common social origins. Comic theater in these years was simultaneously a reflection of monetary development and a venue for shaping perceptions of money and those who handled it.
The dissertation aims to track the development of theatrical representations of evolving monetary concepts, particularly the passage from coin to paper. Focusing specifically on comedy, a genre whose subject had a unique relationship with the social milieu of its spectators, the goal of this work is to show how playwrights, at the same time as they helped define a literary genre, both reflected and contributed to the development of economic thought.
Subjects/Keywords: Comedy; French; Money; Paper; Theater; Economic History; English Language and Literature
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Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Pagett, Matthew Jon. “Money Plays: Performing Currency in Seventeenth-Century French Comedy.” 2013. Thesis, University of Pennsylvania. Accessed January 19, 2021.
https://repository.upenn.edu/edissertations/786.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
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MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Pagett, Matthew Jon. “Money Plays: Performing Currency in Seventeenth-Century French Comedy.” 2013. Web. 19 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Pagett MJ. Money Plays: Performing Currency in Seventeenth-Century French Comedy. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Pennsylvania; 2013. [cited 2021 Jan 19].
Available from: https://repository.upenn.edu/edissertations/786.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Pagett MJ. Money Plays: Performing Currency in Seventeenth-Century French Comedy. [Thesis]. University of Pennsylvania; 2013. Available from: https://repository.upenn.edu/edissertations/786
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Arizona State University
21.
Ackerman, Heather M.
Accommodation Fetishism.
Degree: English, 2017, Arizona State University
URL: http://repository.asu.edu/items/45042
► Since their introduction into English in the mid-sixteenth Century, accommodations have registered weighty concepts in religious, economic, and political discourse: they represented the process by…
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▼ Since their introduction into English in the
mid-sixteenth Century, accommodations have registered weighty
concepts in religious, economic, and political discourse: they
represented the process by which divine principles could be adapted
to human understanding, the non-interest property loans that were
the bedrock of Christian neighborliness, and a political accord
that would satisfy all warring factions. These important ideas,
however, give way to misdirection, mutation, and suspicion that can
all be traced back to the word accommodation in some way—the word
itself suggests ambiguous or shared agency and constitutes a blank
form that might be overwritten with questionable values or content.
This dissertation examines the semantic range and rhetorical value
of the word accommodation, which garnered attention for being a
“perfumed term” (Jonson), a “good phrase” (Shakespeare), a
stumbling block (Milton), and idolatry (anonymous author). The word
itself is acknowledged to have an extra-lingual value, some kind of
efficacious appeal or cultural capital that periodically interferes
with its meaning. These tendencies align it with different modes of
fetishism—idolatry, commodity fetishism, and factishism—which I
will explicate and synthesize through an analysis of
accommodation’s various careers and explicit commentary evidenced
in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century texts.
Subjects/Keywords: Literature; accommodation; economic history; factish; fetishism; idolatry; religious translation
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Ackerman, H. M. (2017). Accommodation Fetishism. (Doctoral Dissertation). Arizona State University. Retrieved from http://repository.asu.edu/items/45042
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Ackerman, Heather M. “Accommodation Fetishism.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, Arizona State University. Accessed January 19, 2021.
http://repository.asu.edu/items/45042.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Ackerman, Heather M. “Accommodation Fetishism.” 2017. Web. 19 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Ackerman HM. Accommodation Fetishism. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Arizona State University; 2017. [cited 2021 Jan 19].
Available from: http://repository.asu.edu/items/45042.
Council of Science Editors:
Ackerman HM. Accommodation Fetishism. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Arizona State University; 2017. Available from: http://repository.asu.edu/items/45042

University of Lund
22.
Sjöö, Karolin.
Innovation and transformation in the Swedish
manufacturing sector, 1970-2007.
Degree: 2014, University of Lund
URL: https://lup.lub.lu.se/record/4332000
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https://portal.research.lu.se/ws/files/6313516/4332004.pdf
► This doctoral thesis investigates changes in the volume and character of Swedish manufacturing sector innovation output between 1970 and 2007, a time span composed of…
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▼ This doctoral thesis investigates changes in the
volume and character of Swedish manufacturing sector innovation
output between 1970 and 2007, a time span composed of both extended
periods of relative prosperity and decline. More specifically, it
examines whether changes in the number of innovations, the
character of the innovating firms, and the distribution of
innovations across industries are generally associated with any
such period. Significant differences in received accounts of
structural transformation in the Swedish manufacturing sector
motivate the study. A newly compiled database containing
observations of nearly 4000 innovations is explored. It is found
that innovation output is at its greatest during the economically
stagnant period running from 1975 and until the first years of the
19 80s. Furthermore, innovations produced in this period are more
novel than those of any other period. Innovation output observed in
the relatively prosperous period 1994-2007 is meager and generally
less novel. There is a marked increase in small firm innovation;
from the early 1980s onwards, small firms are the most important
source of innovation. The increase cuts through the entire period
and stands in contrast with the economically important role
traditionally considered to be played by large firms in the Swedish
economy. Innovation output is found to shift from being primarily
achieved in the capital goods sector to being subsequently
developed in fields such as instruments, telecom products, and
software. With regard to the revolutionary growth of
microelectronics characterizing the period, the Swedish
manufacturing sector is found to be competent in implementing such
technology and to be primarily a receiver rather than a supplier of
microelectronic components.
Subjects/Keywords: Economic History; innovation; industrial transformation; manufacturing; structural change; third industrial revolution; literature-based innovation output; innovation indicator; economic history; Sweden
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Sjöö, K. (2014). Innovation and transformation in the Swedish
manufacturing sector, 1970-2007. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Lund. Retrieved from https://lup.lub.lu.se/record/4332000 ; https://portal.research.lu.se/ws/files/6313516/4332004.pdf
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Sjöö, Karolin. “Innovation and transformation in the Swedish
manufacturing sector, 1970-2007.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Lund. Accessed January 19, 2021.
https://lup.lub.lu.se/record/4332000 ; https://portal.research.lu.se/ws/files/6313516/4332004.pdf.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Sjöö, Karolin. “Innovation and transformation in the Swedish
manufacturing sector, 1970-2007.” 2014. Web. 19 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Sjöö K. Innovation and transformation in the Swedish
manufacturing sector, 1970-2007. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Lund; 2014. [cited 2021 Jan 19].
Available from: https://lup.lub.lu.se/record/4332000 ; https://portal.research.lu.se/ws/files/6313516/4332004.pdf.
Council of Science Editors:
Sjöö K. Innovation and transformation in the Swedish
manufacturing sector, 1970-2007. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Lund; 2014. Available from: https://lup.lub.lu.se/record/4332000 ; https://portal.research.lu.se/ws/files/6313516/4332004.pdf
23.
Porter, Jillian Elizabeth.
Money and Mad Ambition: Economies of Russian Literature 1830-1850.
Degree: Slavic Languages & Literatures, 2011, University of California – Berkeley
URL: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/9ng5x5qp
► This dissertation offers a sustained examination of the economic paradigms that structure meaning and narrative in Russian literature of the 1830s-1840s, the formative years of…
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▼ This dissertation offers a sustained examination of the economic paradigms that structure meaning and narrative in Russian literature of the 1830s-1840s, the formative years of nineteenth-century Russian prose. Exploring works by Alexander Pushkin, Nikolai Gogol, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Faddei Bulgarin, I view tropes such as spending, counterfeiting, hoarding, and gambling, as well as plots of mad or blocked ambition, in relation to the cultural and economic history of Nicholas I's reign and in the context of the importation of economic discourse and literary conventions from abroad. Furthermore, I consider the impact of culturally and economically conditioned affects – ambition, avarice, and embarrassment – on narrative tone. From the post-Revolutionary French plot of social ambition to the classic character type of the miser, the western economic models Russian writers routinely invoked seemed strangely out of place in Russia's autocratic and serf-based society. At a historical moment when the question of Russian specificity was frequently posed with reference to Europe, and the modern European discourses of aesthetics, the emotions, and political economy were solidifying in opposition to one another, Russian writers made prolific and paradoxical use of economic paradigms to explore the role of literature and the nature of feeling in a society in which the state, rather than the bourgeoisie, was the primary motor of history. Incorporating the perspectives of New Economic Criticism as well as the history of emotions, Money and Mad Ambition strives to account for the interrelationship between Russian literature and economics in the second quarter of the nineteenth century.
Subjects/Keywords: Slavic literature; Economic criticism; Russian literature
…economic contradictions
permeating Russian literature and society in the 1830s-1840s, years that… …literature and economics in
this period. I ask why economic plots and paradigms proved so… …material economic
history. Because the period of Russian literature at issue here is one that is… …Economic Criticism include Marc Shell, The Economy of Literature (Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins… …Russian authors routinely used
economic metaphors to figure the writing, reading, and…
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Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Porter, Jillian Elizabeth. “Money and Mad Ambition: Economies of Russian Literature 1830-1850.” 2011. Thesis, University of California – Berkeley. Accessed January 19, 2021.
http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/9ng5x5qp.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Porter, Jillian Elizabeth. “Money and Mad Ambition: Economies of Russian Literature 1830-1850.” 2011. Web. 19 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Porter JE. Money and Mad Ambition: Economies of Russian Literature 1830-1850. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of California – Berkeley; 2011. [cited 2021 Jan 19].
Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/9ng5x5qp.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Porter JE. Money and Mad Ambition: Economies of Russian Literature 1830-1850. [Thesis]. University of California – Berkeley; 2011. Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/9ng5x5qp
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

University of North Carolina
24.
Garrett, Lauren.
In Praise of Debt: Affective Economics in Early Modern English Literature.
Degree: English and Comparative Literature, 2015, University of North Carolina
URL: https://cdr.lib.unc.edu/record/uuid:497e679f-f7f3-42c4-8dbb-c952fd687fd7
► This dissertation examines texts that thematize the crises of trust resulting from the pressures of early modern England's expanding credit economy. A century before the…
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▼ This dissertation examines texts that thematize the crises of trust resulting from the pressures of early modern England's expanding credit economy. A century before the founding of the Bank of England, early modern credit remained an emotive and moral currency, presumably dependent on affective ties, moral obligations, knowledge of a potential debtor's character and a concern for their well-being. And yet, in this period of widespread mobility, immigration, urbanization, conspicuous consumption, and heightened levels of debt litigation, creditors and debtors were often strangers bound only by a legal bond that carried penalties of surprising severity. At this critical moment of emerging capitalistic practices and their attendant social and moral disruptions, Elizabethan and Jacobean authors are drawn to the discursive interplay between the legal problem of debt and those debts of love and social obligation it threatened. As an emerging ethos shaped by market relations and commercial culture pervades, complicates, and reconfigures traditional structures of affective relations - Christian fellowship, friendship, marriage, kinship, and service - early modern writers exploit the age-old interdependence of
economic and moral discourses. The resulting discourse of debt is characterized by a strategic slippage between debt's
economic and emotive registers. The texts included in this study deploy this discourse to achieve ends at once self-interested and moralistic. Some debtors use the discourse to perpetually defer payment by reorganizing their debt relations, while others use it to resist disenfranchisement by reorienting the basis of credibility. Through its inscription into law with the 1571 Act Against Usury, this discourse enables the advancement of predatory lending as an acceptable violation of traditional social obligations. At the same time, its inscription into genres such as city comedy and domestic tragedy show the discourse to be a rhetorical antidote for the worst excesses of both
economic and affective debt relations. On a broader scale, this project reveals a relationship between
economic and affective bonds that is more complex than we have previously understood. As the two begin to move towards increasingly distinct fields, the implications of their shared rhetorical and conceptual basis become imbued with an unprecedented signifying power for social intervention.
Advisors/Committee Members: Garrett, Lauren, Floyd-Wilson, Mary, Baker, David, Barbour, Reid, Matchinske, Megan, Wolfe, Jessica.
Subjects/Keywords: British literature; Europe; History; Economic history; College of Arts and Sciences; Department of English and Comparative Literature
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Garrett, L. (2015). In Praise of Debt: Affective Economics in Early Modern English Literature. (Thesis). University of North Carolina. Retrieved from https://cdr.lib.unc.edu/record/uuid:497e679f-f7f3-42c4-8dbb-c952fd687fd7
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Garrett, Lauren. “In Praise of Debt: Affective Economics in Early Modern English Literature.” 2015. Thesis, University of North Carolina. Accessed January 19, 2021.
https://cdr.lib.unc.edu/record/uuid:497e679f-f7f3-42c4-8dbb-c952fd687fd7.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Garrett, Lauren. “In Praise of Debt: Affective Economics in Early Modern English Literature.” 2015. Web. 19 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Garrett L. In Praise of Debt: Affective Economics in Early Modern English Literature. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of North Carolina; 2015. [cited 2021 Jan 19].
Available from: https://cdr.lib.unc.edu/record/uuid:497e679f-f7f3-42c4-8dbb-c952fd687fd7.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Garrett L. In Praise of Debt: Affective Economics in Early Modern English Literature. [Thesis]. University of North Carolina; 2015. Available from: https://cdr.lib.unc.edu/record/uuid:497e679f-f7f3-42c4-8dbb-c952fd687fd7
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
25.
Reiss, Piotr.
Kategorie ekonomiczne w literaturze staropolskiej
.
Degree: 2017, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10593/17965
► Rozprawa skupiona jest na badaniu dawnej praktyki literackiej i konkretnych tekstów – zarówno tych, w których pojawiały się kategorie ekonomiczne (takie jak kupno, sprzedaż, zysk…
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▼ Rozprawa skupiona jest na badaniu dawnej praktyki literackiej i konkretnych tekstów – zarówno tych, w których pojawiały się kategorie ekonomiczne (takie jak kupno, sprzedaż, zysk itp.), jak również takich, w których zjawiska z zakresu szeroko pojętej praktyki gospodarczej znalazły swój opis w języku literackim pozbawionym wyrazów znaczeniowo związanych z ekonomią. W centrum zainteresowań badawczych znajduje się jednak człowiek i tekstowe manifestacje jego tożsamości. Praca powstała jako efekt badań z zakresu antropologii literatury prowadzonych na tekstach kultury europejskiej od wczesnego średniowiecza po oświecenie.
Główna część pracy poświęcona jest kształtującym się w dobie renesansu i wczesnego baroku ideałom ekonomicznym, które artykułowane były również w przestrzeni literatury. Ideały te powracają w twórczości późniejszych pisarzy (W. Potockiego, A. M. Fredry i innych) aż po publicystykę wczesnego oświecenia (na przykład w pismach Jabłonowskiego czy Garczyńskiego)
Trwałość tych ideałów istotna jest dla kultury staropolskiej. Stają się one podstawowym elementem powszechnych przekonań związanych z ekonomią i etyką bogacenia się.
Streszczana dysertacja dowodzi, iż w kształtowaniu się tych ideałów najistotniejszą rolę odegrała literatura. To bowiem właśnie literatura miała tę nieprawdopodobną moc upowszechniania przekonań, myśli i idei, a także całego systemu aksjologicznego, który trwale kształtuje elementy powszechnej świadomości wśród przedstawicieli danej strefy kulturowej.
Advisors/Committee Members: Maleszyński, Dariusz Cezary. Promotor (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: literatura staropolska;
Old Polish literature;
antropologia literatury;
antropology of literature;
ekonomia;
economics;
historia gospodarcza;
economic history
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Reiss, P. (2017). Kategorie ekonomiczne w literaturze staropolskiej
. (Doctoral Dissertation). Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10593/17965
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Reiss, Piotr. “Kategorie ekonomiczne w literaturze staropolskiej
.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu. Accessed January 19, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/10593/17965.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Reiss, Piotr. “Kategorie ekonomiczne w literaturze staropolskiej
.” 2017. Web. 19 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Reiss P. Kategorie ekonomiczne w literaturze staropolskiej
. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu; 2017. [cited 2021 Jan 19].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10593/17965.
Council of Science Editors:
Reiss P. Kategorie ekonomiczne w literaturze staropolskiej
. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu; 2017. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10593/17965

York University
26.
Ballantyne, Darcy Patrecia Ysuet.
A Poetics of the Contemporary Black Canadian City: Charting the History of Black Urban Space in Fiction and Poetry by Black Canadian Writers.
Degree: PhD, English, 2019, York University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10315/35826
► This study analyses literary depictions of the Canadian city in representative contemporary (twentieth- and twenty-first-century) English-Canadian short fiction and poetry by black Canadian writers Austin…
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▼ This study analyses literary depictions of the Canadian city in representative contemporary (twentieth- and twenty-first-century) English-Canadian short fiction and poetry by black Canadian writers Austin Clarke, Wayde Compton and Dionne Brand. Although their generic and aesthetic approaches as well as the specific historical contexts out of which they emerge vary considerably, the works in this study each exhibit what douard Glissant, in his eponymously titled book, calls a poetics of relation between the past and the present (42). Their work challenges our understanding of the contemporary city by drawing attention to and dismantling enduring hegemonic and homogeneous representations of the Canadian metropolis and by rearticulating the city through a black gaze and sensibility. Clarke's, Compton's and Brand's representations of black city spaces, places and peoples probe the entrenched historical and ideological systems and legacies that continue to influence black urban geographies and the ways they are portrayed in and by various media, institutions and the collective imagination. Their politically charged and socially relevant literary inquiries lead to complex, layered, hopeful and often contradictory, ambivalent and vexing visions of the contemporary Canadian city. Each depiction of the city confronts and complicates the ongoing material and theoretical erasure of black urban spaces and places in the nation and the national literary corpus that helps define it. Importantly, these idiosyncratic fictional and poetic portraits both invoke and dispel dominant notions of black city dwellers, black spaces and black places as socially and culturally monolithic harbingers of violence, disorder, disease and death and thus ask us to re-evaluate our own assumptions about contemporary Canadian metropolitan life. The present analysis approaches the topic of the contemporary black Canadian city in
literature through a compelling theoretical perspective that argues for a direct, ongoing and contiguous relationship between the colonial plantation and the contemporary metropolis. Specifically, this project examines literary representations of the contemporary city under the rubric of plantation futuresa spatial-temporal conceptual device that reads contemporary black urban spaces through and against the history of the colonial plantation and the distorted logics that arose from the perverse culture of plantation slavery (McKittrick, Plantation Futures 2).
Advisors/Committee Members: Sanders, Leslie (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Caribbean literature; Black Canadian writing; Plantation economic theory; plantation futures; Black diaspora; Black Canadian city
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Ballantyne, D. P. Y. (2019). A Poetics of the Contemporary Black Canadian City: Charting the History of Black Urban Space in Fiction and Poetry by Black Canadian Writers. (Doctoral Dissertation). York University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10315/35826
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Ballantyne, Darcy Patrecia Ysuet. “A Poetics of the Contemporary Black Canadian City: Charting the History of Black Urban Space in Fiction and Poetry by Black Canadian Writers.” 2019. Doctoral Dissertation, York University. Accessed January 19, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/10315/35826.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Ballantyne, Darcy Patrecia Ysuet. “A Poetics of the Contemporary Black Canadian City: Charting the History of Black Urban Space in Fiction and Poetry by Black Canadian Writers.” 2019. Web. 19 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Ballantyne DPY. A Poetics of the Contemporary Black Canadian City: Charting the History of Black Urban Space in Fiction and Poetry by Black Canadian Writers. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. York University; 2019. [cited 2021 Jan 19].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10315/35826.
Council of Science Editors:
Ballantyne DPY. A Poetics of the Contemporary Black Canadian City: Charting the History of Black Urban Space in Fiction and Poetry by Black Canadian Writers. [Doctoral Dissertation]. York University; 2019. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10315/35826

Columbia University
27.
Schwab, Manuel.
Speculative Humanitarianism; Political Economies of Aid and Disputed Notions of Crisis.
Degree: 2015, Columbia University
URL: https://doi.org/10.7916/D8PC313X
► This dissertation is based on two years of field research in Sudan, in Khartoum; the three capitals of Darfur; and Bentiu, Unity State, at the…
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▼ This dissertation is based on two years of field research in Sudan, in Khartoum; the three capitals of Darfur; and Bentiu, Unity State, at the border between North and South Sudan. Building on a now substantial literature in critical humanitarian studies, my work focuses on the emergence of new economic forms, circuits, and entitlements that accompany humanitarian aid. These include the influx of ration cards, trade routes that deliberately shadow humanitarian convoys and draw in aid recipients, and entitlements based on kinship ties to injured or displaced victims of conflict. For well over a decade anthropologists have studied the social and political work humanitarianism does in excess of its stated intention to relieve the suffering of civilians in regions of national and political disasters. As numerous scholars have shown, humanitarian discourses and practices intentionally and unintentionally transform local and regional political values and institutions by altering the social relations that subtend them. I pursue how these transformations intervene into core categories of how people understand themselves to have status in a social world.
The manuscript focuses on the one ways in which people and events are evaluated as having status within humanitarian logics. It explores the nexus between this logics and the creation of novel economic subjects, values, and institutions that are neither foreign nor local, neither neoliberal nor traditional. They are, rather, a glimpse of something the manuscript refers to as humanitarian economies, with all dimensions of the economic intended. These include new forms of dependency and altered structures of political authority. But they also include new strategies of local speculation based on humanitarian rubrics of recognizing need. For instance, I track the circulation and resale of objects of material necessity, such as grain, cooking oil, or work tools distributed by aid agencies. I demonstrate the ways in which such objects begin to function as general equivalents; they become a form of currency, and a vehicle for the storage, accumulation and transmission of wealth. But on the other hand, the manuscript is just as focused on the circulation of universal values of protection, and their transformation as local actors pick them up and deploy them in their social worlds.
In other words, as local actors come to understand how humanitarian actors assess crisis, they produce a second order assessment of where aid is likely to go and thus what would be a profitable investment. They also produce second order deployments of how injury and livelihood is evaluated. Such practices transform basic dynamics of social entitlement. And they also change how people think of themselves and their neighbors as economic and political subjects. Meanwhile, critical infrastructures - from irrigation channels to pharmacy supply routes to radio transmitters - become the objects of heightened ethical scrutiny. Infrastructure comes to stand in for good governance, stability, and…
Subjects/Keywords: Political science – Economic aspects; Humanitarianism; Humanitarian assistance; Economics – Political aspects; Ethnology; Africans; Comparative literature
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Schwab, M. (2015). Speculative Humanitarianism; Political Economies of Aid and Disputed Notions of Crisis. (Doctoral Dissertation). Columbia University. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.7916/D8PC313X
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Schwab, Manuel. “Speculative Humanitarianism; Political Economies of Aid and Disputed Notions of Crisis.” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, Columbia University. Accessed January 19, 2021.
https://doi.org/10.7916/D8PC313X.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Schwab, Manuel. “Speculative Humanitarianism; Political Economies of Aid and Disputed Notions of Crisis.” 2015. Web. 19 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Schwab M. Speculative Humanitarianism; Political Economies of Aid and Disputed Notions of Crisis. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Columbia University; 2015. [cited 2021 Jan 19].
Available from: https://doi.org/10.7916/D8PC313X.
Council of Science Editors:
Schwab M. Speculative Humanitarianism; Political Economies of Aid and Disputed Notions of Crisis. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Columbia University; 2015. Available from: https://doi.org/10.7916/D8PC313X

University of Glasgow
28.
Swann, Adam.
'Nature's coyn must not be hoorded' : Milton and the economics of salvation, 1634-1674.
Degree: PhD, 2014, University of Glasgow
URL: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/4823/
;
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► Milton’s use of economic tropes has attracted very little critical attention, and the connections between economics and theology in his thought have not yet been…
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▼ Milton’s use of economic tropes has attracted very little critical attention, and the connections between economics and theology in his thought have not yet been explored. Blair Hoxby’s Mammon’s Music: Literature and Economics in the Age of Milton (2002) focuses on the influence of economic ideas on Milton’s political thought, arguing that the poet persistently associates trade monopolies with autocratic abuses of monarchical power. David Hawkes places Milton’s lifelong professional usury at the centre of his 2009 biography, John Milton: A Hero of Our Time, and his 2011 essay, ‘Milton and Usury,’ fruitfully reads key passages from Paradise Lost in relation to contemporary tracts on usury. Hoxby and Hawkes have astutely highlighted the relationship between economics and Milton’s thought, but neither scholar has pursued these connections into Milton’s theology. Economic ideas lie at the very heart of Milton’s soteriology, and my thesis offers a historicised investigation of Milton’s corpus, demonstrating that the tropes of contemporary economic thought were crucial to his understanding of sin and, more importantly, salvation. Chapter 1 traces the roots of this economic soteriology to the economic and theological treatises of the 1620s and early 1630s, which argued that money must be not stockpiled but circulated, and that salvation was a transaction between man and God. Chapter 2 considers how Ben Jonson and George Herbert, whose work Milton was familiar with in his youth, used The Staple of Newes (1626) and The Temple (1633) to respond to contemporary developments in economic and theological thought. Chapter 3 reads Milton’s early works as studies of hoarding and consumption, traced through the debate over sexual stockpiling in Comus (1634), the sinfulness of a hoarding nation in the History of Moscovia (early 1640s), and the clergy torn between their compulsions to covet and consume in Of Reformation (1641). Chapter 4 finds in Gerrard Winstanley’s Fire in the Bush (1650) an explicitly economic understanding of the Fall, and demonstrates how Milton’s political and religious writings of the 1650s betray an anxiety that the English cannot govern their economic appetites and, therefore, themselves. Chapter 5 examines how Milton uses tropes of investment, profit, loss, and repayment in the Christian Doctrine and Paradise Lost (1667) to represent redemption as a transaction between Jesus and God on man’s behalf. Chapter 6 reads the History of Britain (1670) as an indictment of isolationist economic policies, with Milton demonstrating that free interactions between peoples facilitate national refinement, and thus strangers become saviours.
Subjects/Keywords: 820.9; BT Doctrinal Theology; HC Economic History and Conditions; PR English literature
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Swann, A. (2014). 'Nature's coyn must not be hoorded' : Milton and the economics of salvation, 1634-1674. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Glasgow. Retrieved from http://theses.gla.ac.uk/4823/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.586861
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Swann, Adam. “'Nature's coyn must not be hoorded' : Milton and the economics of salvation, 1634-1674.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Glasgow. Accessed January 19, 2021.
http://theses.gla.ac.uk/4823/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.586861.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Swann, Adam. “'Nature's coyn must not be hoorded' : Milton and the economics of salvation, 1634-1674.” 2014. Web. 19 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Swann A. 'Nature's coyn must not be hoorded' : Milton and the economics of salvation, 1634-1674. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Glasgow; 2014. [cited 2021 Jan 19].
Available from: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/4823/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.586861.
Council of Science Editors:
Swann A. 'Nature's coyn must not be hoorded' : Milton and the economics of salvation, 1634-1674. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Glasgow; 2014. Available from: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/4823/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.586861

University of Manchester
29.
Key, Laura.
Face value : representations of money in American literature, 1896-1944.
Degree: PhD, 2012, University of Manchester
URL: https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/face-value-representations-of-money-in-american-literature-18961944(6a2ed6f3-0a55-4dd7-91b8-a96ebedffef2).html
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► This thesis analyses the significance of socio-historical conceptions of money in relation to the development of American literary modernism from 1896 to 1944. Taking as…
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▼ This thesis analyses the significance of socio-historical conceptions of money in relation to the development of American literary modernism from 1896 to 1944. Taking as its starting point Jean-Joseph Goux's contention that there was a correlation between the end of gold-backed money in France and the birth of French modernist literature, this study considers how far this claim is tenable in the American case. In 1896, the key debate surrounding the presidential election was over whether money should be backed by gold or silver specie, which became a major public issue. Faith in the gold standard was challenged, raising the possibility that the source of monetary value was negotiable. Subsequent policy changes, financial panics, the Depression and the World Wars all affected public conceptions of money, until the Bretton Woods Agreement instituted an international gold standard supported by the gold-backed U.S. dollar in 1944, effectively re-establishing a firm relationship between gold and money. Since the 1990s, New Economic Criticism has sought to understand the ways in which money and literature converge throughout history. Although several studies of money and American literary realism have been undertaken, the relationship between money and American literary modernism specifically has largely been overlooked in scholarship. Analysing the works of Robert Herrick, Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald and John Dos Passos, this thesis contends that a certain strand of American modernism developed as a series of reflections upon the relationship between money, value and realistic representation, in which the limitations of realism are exposed. Calling for a re-historicisation of the relationship between money and literature, this study argues that particular socio-historical moments in the story of American money emphasised the fluidity of money, sending social conceptions of value into flux in a society in which money functioned as the general equivalent by which all values were measured. These moments when accepted face values were called into question offered American writers the language and structure by which to consider and challenge the limitations of existing literary forms by comparing money with literature. Both paper money and literature, forms of representation which function via the inscription of words upon paper, contain an inherent duality; they have both a material value, in terms of their composition from paper and ink, and a deeper capacity to represent a certain value in the society in which they circulate. Modernism is concerned with such a duality, emphasising the materiality of the text and exposing the text's status as a representation that can never equal the reality that it represents. The authors discussed here confronted the discrepancy between written language as a reflection of the real world and words as material constructs in themselves through the metaphor of money, manifesting in both textual theme and structure, where the boundaries of realist representation are broken down via the…
Subjects/Keywords: 810.9; modernism; New Economic Criticism; money; American Literature; American Studies; 1896-1944
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Key, L. (2012). Face value : representations of money in American literature, 1896-1944. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Manchester. Retrieved from https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/face-value-representations-of-money-in-american-literature-18961944(6a2ed6f3-0a55-4dd7-91b8-a96ebedffef2).html ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.727778
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Key, Laura. “Face value : representations of money in American literature, 1896-1944.” 2012. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Manchester. Accessed January 19, 2021.
https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/face-value-representations-of-money-in-american-literature-18961944(6a2ed6f3-0a55-4dd7-91b8-a96ebedffef2).html ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.727778.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Key, Laura. “Face value : representations of money in American literature, 1896-1944.” 2012. Web. 19 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Key L. Face value : representations of money in American literature, 1896-1944. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Manchester; 2012. [cited 2021 Jan 19].
Available from: https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/face-value-representations-of-money-in-american-literature-18961944(6a2ed6f3-0a55-4dd7-91b8-a96ebedffef2).html ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.727778.
Council of Science Editors:
Key L. Face value : representations of money in American literature, 1896-1944. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Manchester; 2012. Available from: https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/face-value-representations-of-money-in-american-literature-18961944(6a2ed6f3-0a55-4dd7-91b8-a96ebedffef2).html ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.727778

University of Cambridge
30.
Hardstaff, Sarah.
Hidden Economies in the Novels of Mildred Taylor and Cynthia Voigt.
Degree: PhD, 2019, University of Cambridge
URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/312847
► This thesis is the first full-length comparative study of the work of Mildred Taylor and Cynthia Voigt, two of the most important and critically-acclaimed authors…
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▼ This thesis is the first full-length comparative study of the work of Mildred Taylor and Cynthia Voigt, two of the most important and critically-acclaimed authors of American children’s literature of the past fifty years. My corpus of texts consists of Taylor’s Logan family novels and Voigt’s Tillerman family novels. The primary aim of this research is: to compare Taylor’s and Voigt’s representation of character agency in the context of economic activity. The main theoretical aim of my study has thus been to develop an approach that allows for comparative critical analysis of the ways in which characters, especially child characters, operate as economic agents. The thesis combines ideas and methods from a range of disciplines, primarily children’s literature criticism, economic criticism and functional linguistics. The first three chapters of the thesis considers the agency of characters with respect to what might be thought of as conventional economic categories: production, consumption and circulation. The next two chapters focus on interactions between characters and social institutions, looking specifically at representations of healthcare, military service and the legal system within the novels. In the conclusion, I claim that my study shows the viability of economic criticism as a theoretical and methodological framework for children’s literature criticism, as well as summarising specific claims about Taylor’s and Voigt’s representations of child agency in encounters with both material and symbolic economies, and the ideological implications of these representations. I further hope that this research provides support for comparative studies that put seemingly disparate texts in conversation with one another, beyond using them as exemplars of some broader claims or theoretical propositions. I end the thesis with a practical coda that outlines some of the major ideological tensions between the original texts and their use by teachers and publishers.
Subjects/Keywords: children's literature; economic criticism; agency; race and class; Logan novels; Tillerman novels
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Hardstaff, S. (2019). Hidden Economies in the Novels of Mildred Taylor and Cynthia Voigt. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Cambridge. Retrieved from https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/312847
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Hardstaff, Sarah. “Hidden Economies in the Novels of Mildred Taylor and Cynthia Voigt.” 2019. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Cambridge. Accessed January 19, 2021.
https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/312847.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Hardstaff, Sarah. “Hidden Economies in the Novels of Mildred Taylor and Cynthia Voigt.” 2019. Web. 19 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Hardstaff S. Hidden Economies in the Novels of Mildred Taylor and Cynthia Voigt. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Cambridge; 2019. [cited 2021 Jan 19].
Available from: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/312847.
Council of Science Editors:
Hardstaff S. Hidden Economies in the Novels of Mildred Taylor and Cynthia Voigt. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Cambridge; 2019. Available from: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/312847
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