7;m studying 19th-c. American fiction writers who
connected the formal, abstract equivalence among citizens (white men, to be
sure) with the formal, abstract equivalence of exchanged commodities and of
exchangers (including slaves). Specifically, I'm studying how notions of
embodiment and race p
rketplace, 1670-1820 (1994)
Audrey Jaffe, Scenes of Sympathy: Identity and Representation in Victorian Fiction (2000)
Marc Shell, Money, Language, and Thought: Literary and Philosophical Economies from the Medieval to the Modern Era (1982)
Marc Shell,The Economy of Literature (1979)
Jean-Joseph Goux, The