{"product_id":"speculative-fictions-explaining-the-economy-in-the-early-united-states-hardcover","title":"Speculative Fictions: Explaining the Economy in the Early United States - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eElizabeth Hewitt\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSpeculative Fictions\u003c\/em\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eSpeculative Fictions\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElizabeth Hewitt, \u003cem\u003eProfessor of English, Department of English, The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eElizabeth Hewitt is a professor in the Department of English at The Ohio State University, Columbus. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eCorrespondence and American Literature, 1770-1865\u003c\/em\u003e (Cambridge University Press, 2004) and editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Letters and Early Epistolary Writings of Charles Brockden Brown\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eEdgar Allan Poe: A Case Study in Critical Controversy\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 9.3 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 25, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42729352200255,"sku":"9780198859130","price":179.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/d7952d15f617ae201f0f3b30539350de.webp?v=1765121887","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/speculative-fictions-explaining-the-economy-in-the-early-united-states-hardcover","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}