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2008 AND ALL THAT: ECONOMICS AND VICTORIAN LITERATURE

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 February 2015

Nancy Henry
Nancy Henry*
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The University of Tennessee
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In their collection of essays, The New Economic Criticism: Studies at the Intersection of Literature and Economics (1999), Mark Osteen and Martha Woodmansee identified and named a movement in economic literary studies and sought to place it alongside a cultural turn in economics. In their introduction, they offer possible reasons for the proliferation of scholarship in literature, culture, and economics. One is that “the critical pendulum has decidedly swung back toward historicist methods” and away from formalist approaches (3); another is that the 1980s thrust “interest rates, stock market speculation, takeovers, leveraged buyouts, and so on, into the public attention as never before since the 1930s” (4). Today, the proverbial pendulum has swung back toward formalism, and it is now surprising to encounter their comparison of the 1980s to the 1930s because we have become so accustomed to claim that comparison to the 1930s for our own post-2008 economy.

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Victorian Literature and Culture , Volume 43 , Issue 1 , March 2015 , pp. 217 - 222
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2015 

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