The Cultural History of Finance and Economics
- Submitting institution
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University of Edinburgh
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 190727090
- Type
- T - Other
- DOI
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10.1093/alh/ajz031
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- Brief description of type
- Collection of creative and critical work
- Open access status
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- Month
- June
- Year
- 2014
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This submission consists of two publications, arising from a long-term project in which the
methodological approaches of literary studies and the wider humanities were brought to bear on financial and economic history. Together they demonstrate the scale and underlying principles of the project as a whole. Paul Crosthwaite was Co-I in successive AHRC-funded projects with Professor Peter Knight (Manchester) and Professor Nicky Marsh (Southampton). The team drew academic and public attention to the roles of narrative, rhetoric and representation in economic theories and practices, and demonstrated the capacity of analytical tools grounded in literary and cultural study to illuminate these phenomena.
The collection Show Me the Money: The Image of Finance, 1700 to the Present was the key scholarly output from the ‘Picturing Finance’ project (2013-2014). The book accompanied a major exhibition, co-curated by the team, that toured to five UK venues. Crosthwaite was jointly responsible with the two other editors for: conceptualising the concerns and approach of the volume and its chapters; commissioning contributions; working with contributors to plan the textual and visual contents of their essays; editing contributions; writing the introduction. Crosthwaite also researched and is sole author of one of the essays.
The overarching project of constructing a literary and cultural reading of economics was developed in the ‘History of Financial Advice’ (2016-2019), which examined the popular but academically neglected ‘how to’ manual aimed at the amateur stock investor. The second publication presents key aspects of this research in an article for American Literary History. The project as a whole addresses the interface of literature, culture and economics as part of the emergence of a wider field of the Economic Humanities. This article, in addition to offering an account of the evolution of the popular financial-advice genre, sets out a programme for this developing area of research.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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