Literature and Inequality: Nine Perspectives from the Napoleonic Era through the First Gilded Age

Literature and Inequality: Nine Perspectives from the Napoleonic Era through the First Gilded Age
ISBN-10
1785273671
ISBN-13
9781785273674
Category
Social Science
Pages
250
Language
English
Published
2020-03-31
Publisher
Anthem Press
Author
Daniel Shaviro

Description

The consequences of high-end inequality seep into almost every aspect of human life: it is not just a question for economists. In this highly accessible new work, Professor Shaviro takes an interdisciplinary approach to explore how great works of literature have provided some of the most incisive accounts of inequality and its social and cultural ramifications over the last two centuries. Through perceptive close readings of Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, and Edith Wharton, among others, he not only demonstrates how these accounts are still relevant today, but how they can illuminate our understanding of our current situation and broaden our own perspective beyond the merely economic.

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