Writing the Economic Subject in Modern Western Europe

Representation, Contestation, Critique

222 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This book explores how capitalism shapes the formation of the economic subject in modern European writing. How are subject positions determined by the subject’s relationship to money and work? How fair is a society that predicates social inclusion upon employment? And what happens when full employment is impossible? The volume traces how literary authors and social theorists have answered these questions in different social and historical contexts from the nineteenth century to the present day. The contributions confront the imperatives of productivity, notions of success and failure, the construction of work cultures and environments, the (in)visibility of certain labour groups, and the implications of the body as a productive site.

• Reihe: Literatur – Kultur – Ökonomie / Literature – Culture – Economy
• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Geschichte und Kritik Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein 1800 bis 1900
• ISBN: 9783631839997
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 18.08.2021
• Größe: 21 x 14.8 cm
• Verlag: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
• Band herausgegeben von: Aileen Behrendt, Nicholas Courtman