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Writing the Common Good: Literature, Economic Liberalism, and the State in the Long Nineteenth Century, 1776-1911

书写共同利益：文学、经济自由主义和漫长的十九世纪的国家，1776-1911

基本信息

批准号：
310603957
负责人：
Professor Dr. Benjamin Kohlmann
金额：
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依托单位：
School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
依托单位国家：
德国
项目类别：
Research Fellowships
财政年份：
2016
资助国家：
德国
起止时间：
2015-12-31 至 2016-12-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/310603957?language=en
关键词：
Writing Common Good Literature Economic

项目摘要

Taking its cue from Adam Smith's now-classical postulation of the harmony between economic self-interest and the common good, this project explores intersections between literary and economic discourses in Britain in the long nineteenth century. Special attention will be paid to the prolonged crisis of economic liberalism in the mid nineteenth century as well as to the conceptualization and slow institutional emergence of the interventionist state after 1870. The period saw momentous shifts in the way the relationship between economic self-interest and the common good was framed, and these intellectual shifts in turn resonated in significant ways with literary writers. Building on recent innovative research in the history of economic thought, my project traces the complex transition from the individualist bias of early and mid-Victorian liberalism to new economic and philosophical understandings of the 'state'. It is the central contention of this project that economic theory did not address itself to a purely self-contained realm of economic affairs but that it continued to make reference to a shared ethical substrate, thus enabling a busy traffic of ideas with literary authors. My project draws on substantial archival research which enables me to reconstruct how London venues such as the Rainbow Circle and the South Place Ethical Society sponsored a cultural exchange that transcended the artificial confines of literature, economics, and popular discourse. Central writers explored in this project include Harriet Martineau, George Eliot, George Gissing, Edward Carpenter, H.G. Wells and E.M. Forster. As I point out, literary authors of the long nineteenth century narrativized moral dilemmas and obligations that were also examined in contemporary economic theory; in turn, economists and moral philosophers frequently drew on the tropes and techniques of narrativization used in literary works.

从亚当·斯密（Adam Smith）现在的经典假设——经济自利与公共利益之间的和谐——中得到启发，该项目探索了漫长的19世纪英国文学与经济话语之间的交集。将特别关注十九世纪中期经济自由主义的长期危机，以及1870年后干预主义国家的概念化和缓慢的制度出现。在这一时期，经济自身利益与公共利益之间的关系发生了重大变化，而这些思想上的转变反过来又在文学作家中产生了重大共鸣。基于最近在经济思想史上的创新研究，我的项目追溯了从早期和中期维多利亚自由主义的个人主义偏见到对“国家”的新经济和哲学理解的复杂过渡。这个项目的核心论点是，经济理论本身并没有解决一个纯粹独立的经济事务领域，而是继续参考一个共同的伦理基础，从而使思想与文学作家之间的繁忙交流成为可能。我的项目借鉴了大量的档案研究，这使我能够重建伦敦场馆，如彩虹圈和南地伦理社会，是如何赞助一场超越文学、经济和流行话语的人为限制的文化交流的。本项目探讨的主要作家包括哈里特·马蒂诺、乔治·艾略特、乔治·吉辛、爱德华·卡朋特、H.G.威尔斯和E.M.福斯特。正如我所指出的，漫长的19世纪文学作家所叙述的道德困境和义务也在当代经济理论中得到了检验；反过来，经济学家和道德哲学家经常在文学作品中使用叙事的修辞和技巧。