Speculative Fictions - Explaining the Economy in the Early United States

Speculative Fictions places Alexander Hamilton at the center of American literary history to consider the important intersections between economics and literature.

List of contents

• Introduction: Hamilton's Country


• Chapter 1 Hamilton and the Encyclopedic Stories of Public Credit


• Chapter 2 Jefferson and the Simple Story of Pastoral Economies


• Chapter 3 Stories without Plots


• Chapter 4 The Slave as System


• Conclusion

About the author

Elizabeth Hewitt is a professor in the Department of English at The Ohio State University, Columbus. She is the author of Correspondence and American Literature, 1770-1865 (Cambridge University Press, 2004) and editor of The Letters and Early Epistolary Writings of Charles Brockden Brown and Edgar Allan Poe: A Case Study in Critical Controversy.

Summary

Speculative Fictions places Alexander Hamilton at the center of American literary history to consider the important intersections between economics and literature.

Additional text

Hewitt makes a compelling, lucid, and insightful case for reading what are now considered the separate domains of early economic theory and literature as interdependent and mutually illuminating...Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Hewitt, Elizabeth (Associate Professor of English Hewitt, Hewitt Elizabeth
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2022
• EAN: 9780192871381
• ISBN: 978-0-19-287138-1
• No. of pages: 344
• Series: Oxford Studies in American Literary History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, English, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 18th Century, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800