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Joining two seemingly irreconcilable opposites, money and art, this edited collection analyzes the treatment of money in various forms of literature. The volume begins with chapters analyzing money in terms of language and culture, and then turns to money in history, showing how money has been influenced by, and has changed, history. Using the theories developed in the first two sections, the chapters that follow consider the literatures of Russia and America, French literature, and English literature.
In Part I, contributors look at such themes as money in Christian culture and the pervasive influence of money on language. Part II considers Queen Elizabeth I's use of money for propaganda, money shortages in 18th-century France, and banking in 19th-century America. The following sections provide the major focus of the work--the theme of money in literature. American and Russian literature are considered in essays on the work of Alexander Pushkin, Henry James, and William Carlos Williams. Part III, on French literature, looks at the work of Moliere, Flaubert, Balzac, Zola, and Andre Gide. The final, long section analyzes money's appearance in English literature, including the work of Shakespeare, George Herbert, Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, Charles Dickens, and Bram Stoker.
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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Money, Language, and CultureMoney as Art--or a Short Essay on Christian Numismatics by Marc Shell
Money and Language by Robert A. Leonard
Determining Efficient Property Rights Systems for Money by Michael J. Haupert
Money, Love, and Roses: Liquidity Preference Reconsidered by Catherine L. Lawson
Money: How Do I Know It's O.K.? by Richard G. Doty
Individual Differences in Money as a Motivator by Ellen Stephens
Drugs and Money by David T. Courtwright
Money and HistoryImages of Majesty: Money as Propaganda in Elizabethan England by Clifton W. Potter, Jr.
"There Is No More Money Here": Money, Famine, and Tax Revolt in Early Modern France by Thomas M. Luckett
A Discriminating Taste for Money: An Examination of the New York Antebellum Banking Market by Andrew Economopoulos
Money and Russian and American LiteratureMoney in Alexander Pushkin's "The Queen of Spades" by Andrei Anikin
Health Is Capital: Henry James' "Wings of the Dove" by Joann P. Krieg
Giving Williams Some Credit: Money and Language in "Patterson" by John Ulrich
Money and French LiteratureThe Ultimate Seduction: Money and French Theatre by Alex Szogyi
Molière's "Tartuffe:" Money and the Quest for the Unequivocal Sign by Helen L. Harrison
Economics as Lure in "Madame Bovary" by Patricia Reynaud
Mammon's Finger in the Novels of Balzac, Zola, and Gide by John A. Frey
Money and English LiteratureCut My Heart in Sums: Shakespeare's Economics and "Timon of Athens" by Sandra K. Fischer
"When Com'st Thou.so Fresh and Fine?": The King's Stamp and the Origins of Value in Herbert's "Avarice" by Jeffrey Powers-Beck
"Robinson Crusoe" and South Sea Trade, 1710-1720 by Lee Morrissey
Metrical Experimentation in Swift's "Wood's Halfpence Poems" by John Louis DiGaetani
Feminine Transactions: Money and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers by Vanessa D. Dickerson
Displaced Persons: The Cost of Speculation in Charles Dickens' "Martin Chuzzlewit" by Raymond L. Baubles, Jr.
Blood and Money in Bram Stoker's "Dracula:" The Struggle Against Monopoly by Robert Smart
Index
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JOHN LOUIS DiGAETANI is Associate Professor of English at Hofstra University. He is the author or editor of many books, including most recently Opera and the Golden West (1994), A Search for Postmodern Theater: Interviews with Contemporary Playwrights (Greenwood, 1992), and A Companion to Pirandello Studies (Greenwood, 1991).
