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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Economics and literature"”.
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Using Modern Portfolio Theory to Analyze Virgil's Aeneid (or Any Other Poem)
… that it is possible to use mathematics to study literature as it has been used to study the social sciences. By focusing on mathematically defining economic and literary terms, it can be shown that the underlying mathematical structure behind key concepts in economics and literature are …
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Soliciting desire: the ad-man as narrative negotiation between art, desire, and consumer capitalism in twentieth-century novels
… protagonist as means to investigate the social and psychological implications of advertising in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Soliciting Desire takes as its primary subjects H.G. Wells’s Tono-Bungay, Theodore Dresier’s The “Genius,” Frederick Wakeman’s The Hucksters, Jonathan Dee’s …
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Round the Corner: Pawnbroking in the Victorian Novel
… in the way that money was made, exchanged, and experienced in Britain, especially as wealth became measured increasingly by capital, and a system of banking and credit developed. As Mary Poovey has explained, Victorian writing's preoccupation with money and personal wealth, and its frequent …