Description: Grounded in literary studies and spanning the Americas, India, England, and Scotland, this book explores the relationship between economic concepts and culture in the period, focusing on how economic tropes were abstracted into other discourses in fields as diverse as evolutionary science, business, and literary narrative.
Review Quotes: "Highlighting the centrality of economic thought to nineteenth-century culture, this intriguing volumeexpands our sense of what constituted the 'economic.' Its global reach and smart, wide-ranging essays make Culture and Money valuable reading."--Jill Rappoport, University of Kentucky