cam a22 5 4500 598941657 CHVBK 20200817030517.0 200112s2020 enka b||| 001 0 eng|d 0-19-885913-9 hardcover 978-0-19-885913-0 hardcover (IDSBB)007211919 (OCoLC)1135665401 (OCoLC)1182542319 YDX ger YDX BDX OCLCQ ERASA YDXIT YDX YDXIT OCLCF rda PS195.C35 H49 2020 813.109355 23 Speculative fictions explaining the economy in the early United States Elizabeth Hewitt First edition Oxford Oxford University Press 2020 xii, 330 pages illustration 24 cm Text txt rdacontent/ger unbewegtes Bild sti rdacontent/ger ohne Hilfsmittel zu benutzen n rdamedia/ger Band nc rdacarrier/ger Oxford studies in American literary history Includes bibliographical references and index Speculative Fictions' places Alexander Hamilton at the center of American literary history to consider the important intersections between economics and literature. By studying Hamilton as an economic and imaginative writer, it argues that we can recast the conflict with the Jeffersonians as a literary debate about the best way to explain and describe modern capitalism, and explores how various other literary forms allow us to comprehend the complexities of a modern global economy in entirely new ways. 0'Speculative Fictions' identifies two overlooked literary genres of the late eighteenth-century as exemplary of this narrative mode. It asks that we read periodical essays and Black Atlantic captivity narratives with an eye not towards bourgeois subject formation, but as descriptive analyses of economic systems. In doing so, we discover how these two literary genres offer very different portraits of a global economy than that rendered by the novel, the imaginative genre we are most likely to associate with modern capitalism. Developing an aesthetic appreciation for the speculative, digressive, and unsystematic plotlines of these earlier narratives has the capacity to generate new imaginative projects with which to make sense of our increasingly difficult economic world Hamilton, Alexander 1757-1804 (DE-588)118545302 gnd 1783-1850 fast American literature 1783-1850 History and criticism American literature fast Literatur (DE-588)4035964-5 gnd Wirtschaft (Motiv) (DE-588)4190031-5 gnd USA (DE-588)4078704-7 gnd Criticism, interpretation, etc fast Hewitt Elizabeth 1965- author BK020000 XK020000 XK020000 acq-record IDSBB A100 A100 100FM UBH IDSBB 490 0- Oxford studies in American literary history IDSBB 700 1- Hewitt Elizabeth 1965- author SWISSBIB 594134366