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

Cover
Power, Prose, and Purse
Copyright
Contents
List of Contributors
Introduction: Cooperation and Competition between Plots and Principles
Part I
	1. Counterfeiting Confidence: The Problem of Trust in the Age of Contract
	2. Gamblers and Gentlefolk: Money, Law, and Status in Trollope’s England
	3. Regulating Greed: Biographical Markers in Dos Passos’ The Big Money
	4. The Morning and the Evening Star: Religion, Money, and Love in Sinclair Lewis’s Babbitt and Elmer Gantry
	5. Jay Gatsby, Justice Douglas, and the Significance of Class in American Society
Part II
	6. Wealth and Warfare in the Novels of Jane Austen
	7. Commerce, Law, and Revolution in the Novels of Elizabeth Gaskell and Charlotte Brontë
	8. Bartleby’s Consensual Dysphoria
	9. Love from the Point of View of the Universe: Walt Whitman and the Utilitarian Imagination
	10. Money and Art in Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward
	11. The Second New Deal and the Fourth Courtroom Wall: Law, Labor, and Liberty in The Cradle Will Rock
	12. Raisin, Race, and the Real Estate Revolution of the Early Twentieth Century
Part III
	13. The Grapes of Wrath, Economics, and Luck
	14. Irish [and English and American] Poets, Learn Your Trade: Law and Economics in Poetry
Index