Speculative Fictions: Explaining the Economy in the Early United States

by Elizabeth Hewitt

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198859139
• ISBN13: 9780198859130
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.3"