Political Economy, Literature & the Formation of Knowledge, 1720-1850

Taylor & Francis

Political Economy, Literature & the Formation of Knowledge, 1720-1850Author(s): Richard Adelman, Catherine Packham\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138542136, 978-1138542136\nSynopsis\nThis edited collection, Political Economy, Literature & the Formation of Knowledge, aims to address the genealogy and formation of political economy as a knowledge project from 1720 to 1850. Through individual essays on both literary and political economic writers, this volume defines and analyses the formative moves, both epistemological and representational, which proved foundational to the emergence of political economy as a dominant discourse of modernity. The collection also explores political economys relation to other discourses and knowledge practices in this period; representation in and of political economy; abstraction and political economy; fictional mediations and interrogations of political economy; and politi.