Below you will find the critical readings we will be doing over the course of the term – and a few others that are included for your interest and reference. These are scholarly readings of the novels on the course using the different forms of economic criticism to interpret them. Supplementary to these critical essays are two articles that we will use to introduce the course (Woodmansee and Osteen) and to consider the correlation between “postmodern” literature and economics (Tratner).

All links are to electronic versions of these essays on the UBC website. You may access these articles from campus or via a VPN (using your campus ID). You may want to download the articles (as PDFs) for your own use and reference, especially during class.

Backscheider, Paula. “Defoe’s Lady Credit.” Huntington Library Quarterly 44 (1981): 89-100. JSTOR. Web.

Begley, Jon. “Satirizing the Carnival of Postmodern Capitalism: The Transatlantic and Dialogic Structure of Martin Amis’s Money.” Contemporary Literature 45 (2004): 79-105. Project Muse. Web.

Gabbard, Christopher. “The Dutch Wives’ Good Husbandry: Defoe’s Roxana and Financial Literacy.” Eighteenth-Century Studies 37 (2004): 237-251. Project Muse. Web.

Kreisel, Deanna. “Superfluity and Suction: The Problem of Saving in The Mill on the Floss.” Novel: A Forum on Fiction 35 (2001): 69-103. JSTOR. Web.

Miles, Robert. “‘A Fall in Bread’: Speculation and the Real in Emma” Novel: A Forum on Fiction 37 (2003): 66-85. JSTOR. Web.

Mulcaire, Terry. “Public Credit; Or, The Feminization of Virtue in the Marketplace.” PMLA 114 (1999): 1029-1042.

Poovey, Mary. “Writing about Finance in Victorian England: Disclosure and Secrecy in the Culture of Investment.” Victorian Studies 45 (2002): 17-41.

Shaw, Katy. “‘Capital’ City: London, Contemporary British Fiction and the Credit Crunch” The Literary London Journal 11 (2014): 44-53. Web.

Tratner, Michael. “Derrida’s Debt to Milton Friedman.” New Literary History 34 (2003): 791-806. JSTOR. Web.

Weihl, Harrington. “The Monumental Failure of Howards End.” Studies in the Novel 46 (2014): 444-463. Project Muse. Web.

Woodmansee, Martha and Mark Osteen. “Taking Account of the New Economic Criticism” in The New Economic Criticism: Studies at the Intersection of Literature and Economics. London: Routledge, 1999. 1-42. (Chapter 1)