economy in novels: booklist

[David Zimmerman]

Here are two book lists. The first lists the major texts of a graduate course I teach on "19th-Century American Literature and the Marketplace" (I am a literature professor). They're not all novels. The second lists books of literary criticism that focus on pre-20th-century American and British literature about economics, markets, exchange, finance, money, etc. I did not list scholarly treatments of labor and literature.

REQUIRED TEXTS :
Caroline Kirkland, Home as I Found It. Who'll Follow? (1839)
Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854)
P. T. Barnum, The Life of P.T. Barnum, Written by Himself (1855)
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables (1851)
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
William Craft, Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom (1860)
Harriet Wilson, Our Nig (1859)
William Dean Howells, The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885)
Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894)
Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth (1905)
Frank Norris, The Pit (1903)
Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie, Penguin edition (1981) [1900]
Mark Twain, "The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg" (1898)
course reader materials

RELEVANT LITERARY CRITICISM:
Jeffrey Sklansky, The Soul's Economy : Market Society and Selfhood in American Thought, 1820-1920 (2002)
Mohamed Zayani, Reading the Symptom: Frank Norris, Theodore Dreiser, and the Dynamics of Capitalism (1999)
Christophe Den Tandt, The Urban Sublime in American Naturalism (1998)
Lori Merish, Sentimental Materialism: Gender, Commodity Culture, and Nineteenth-Century American Literature (1997)

Brook Thomas, American Literary Realism and the Failed Promise of Contract (1997)
Bill Brown, The Material Unconscious: American Amusement, Stephen Crane, and the Economics of Play (1996)
James Livingston, Pragmatism and the Political Economy of Cultural Revolution, 1850-1940 (1997), ch. 6
Da Zheng, Moral Economy and American Realist Fiction (1996)
Richard Godden, Fictions of Capital, the American Novel from James to Mailer (1992)
Mark Seltzer, Bodies and Machines (1992), pt. II
Howard Horwitz, By the Law of Nature: Form and Value in Nineteenth-Century America (1991)
Gillian Brown, Domestic Individualism: Imagining Self in Nineteenth-Century America (1990)
Susan Coultrap-McQuin. Doing Literary Business: American Women Writers in the Nineteenth Century (1990)
Amy Kaplan, The Social Construction of American Realism (1988)
Walter Benn Michaels, The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism: American Literature at the Turn of the Century (1987)
Michael T. Gilmore, American Romanticism and the Marketplace (1985)
June Howard, Form and History in American Literary Naturalism (1985)
Christopher Wilson, The Labor of Words: Literary Professionalism in the Progressive Era (1985)
Roy Male, ed. Money Talks: Language and Lucre in American Fiction (1979)
Lisle Abbott Rose, "A Bibliographical Survey of Economic and Political Writings, 1865-1900." American Literature 15:4 (Jan. 1944), 381-410
Walter F. Taylor, The Economic Novel in America (1942)
Claude R. Flory, Economic Criticism in American Fiction, 1792-1900 (1937)

On British and other literature:
Catherine Gallagher. The Industrial Reformation of English Fiction (1985)
Sandra Sherman, Finance and Fictionality in the Eighteenth Century: Accounting for Defoe (1996)
John Vernon, Money and Fiction: Literary Realism in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (1984)
James Thompson, Models of Value: Eighteenth-Century Political Economy and the Novel (1996)
Catherine Ingrassia, Authorship, Commerce, and Gender in Early Eighteenth-Century England : a Culture of Paper Credit (1998)
Rachel Bowlby, Just Looking: Consumer Culture in Dreiser, Gissing, and Zola (1985)
Patrick Brantlinger, Fictions of State: Culture and Credit in Britain, 1694-1994 (1996)
Catherine Gallagher. Nobody's Story: The Vanishing of Women Writers in the Marketplace, 1670-1820 (1994)
Audrey Jaffe, Scenes of Sympathy: Identity and Representation in Victorian Fiction (2000)
Marc Shell, Money, Language, and Thought: Literary and Philosophical Economies from the Medieval to the Modern Era (1982)
Marc Shell,The Economy of Literature (1979)
Jean-Joseph Goux, The Coiners of Language (trans. 1994)


David Zimmerman
English Dept.
University of Wisconsin, Madison
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