Paul Crosthwaite
Biographic Data
| ID | 3584245 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Crosthwaite |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Crosthwaite |
| SIGNATURE | CROSTHWAITE P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cardiff University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2235-3942 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A History of the Bloomsbury Group
A History of the Bloomsbury Group ranges more widely across the Bloomsbury group's interdisciplinary activities and international networks than any previous volume. From innovations in the literary and visual arts to interventions in politics and economic policy, core members including Virginia Woolf, Leonard Woolf, E. M. Forster, Lytton Strachey, Vanessa Bell, Clive Bell, Duncan Grant, Roger Fry, and John Maynard Keynes are explored in relation …
Economic Criticism
This chapter covers recently published work in economic criticism, exploring the interplay in this scholarship between contemporary and historical frames and the methodological approaches of economics and the humanities. It is divided into four sections: 1. Introduction; 2. Narrating the Economy; 3. Economic Histories and Cultures; 4. Economic Humanities.
Economic Criticism
This chapter covers work in economic criticism published in 2016, and explores how recent contributions to the field draw on existing ways of understanding the relations between culture and the economy, whilst forging new paradigms and syntheses. It is divided into five sections: 1. Introduction; 2. Projections; 3. Reading and Performing the Market; 4. Debt, Derivatives and Growth; 5. Libidinal Economy.
Economic Criticism
This chapter covers work in economic criticism published in 2015 (or, in one case, 2014), and explores how recent contributions to the field continue to rethink established understandings of the relations between culture and the economy. It is divided into four sections: 1. Introduction; 2. Neoliberalism, Austerity and Resistance; 3. Finance, Feeling and Form; 4. Narrative Economies.
Economic Criticism
This inaugural chapter on ‘Economic Criticism’ surveys books published (predominantly) in 2013 and 2014 that explore the relations between culture and economics. These relations have been growing preoccupations in critical and cultural theory over the past two decades, and especially since the global financial crisis of 2008. This chapter aims to provide an overview of the state of the field as it currently stands, and, in particular, to indicate…
Litonomics
In his campus novel Nice Work, David Lodge points to a certain affinity between the practice and rhetoric of high finance and the theoretical discourses central to the study of literature. From this point of view, and as, myself, a literary scholar who has tried to find ways to bring my own disciplinary training to bear on financial and economic topics, I am especially struck, in reading these four outstanding new books, by the strong element of …
Animality and Ideology in Contemporary Economic Discourse
This article is an attempt to classify the creature known as Homo economicus . Despite its name, Homo economicus ' line of descent through classical and neoclassical economics indicates that it is barely an evolutionary relative of Homo sapiens at all -- that, in fact, it has been traditionally understood less as a living organism than as a machine. Under the pressures of an increasingly hostile intellectual environment, however, Homo economicus …
Is a Financial Crisis a Trauma
Imagining the Market
This curation project explores visual representations of financial markets. Focusing on phases of upheaval in transatlantic finance extending back to the early eighteenth century, it traces a recurrent interplay among figuration, abstraction, and allegory in the attempts by graphic practitioners of various kinds (from pamphlet illustrators to fine art photographers) to imagine “the market” in visual form
What a Waste of Money
The commonplace, knee-jerk response to the enormous sums realised by iconic works of postwar and contemporary art -'what a waste of money!' -is conventionally countered in three ways: by explaining that such pieces possess an aesthetic importance that fully justifies the amounts spent to acquire them; by, conversely, making the pragmatic point that artworks can often prove to be extraordinarily lucrative investments; or, in a synthesis of these p…
Anticipations of the Accident
Blood on the Trading Floor
Speed, War, and Traumatic Affect
Through an analysis of Ian McEwan's novel Atonement (2001), this essay considers the potentialities and limitations of narrative, and of representation more generally, as means of capturing and conveying the accelerated and intensely traumatic character of mechanized warfare. I show how the unflinchingly detailed depictions of mutilated bodies that feature in the novel's re-creation of the German Blitzkrieg go some way toward evoking a traumatic …
Velocities of Power
The fairground injunction to “scream if you want to go faster” has become one of the defining imperatives of advanced capitalism, the ambivalence of that scream both calling forth acceleration and announcing a terror at its prospect. Commentators on the radical time–space compression achieved by the technological developments of recent decades are as conflicted in outlook as their predecessors have been in marking the utopian and apocalyptic prom…
Blood on the Trading Floor
Imagining the Market
This curation project explores visual representations of financial markets. Focusing on phases of upheaval in transatlantic finance extending back to the early eighteenth century, it traces a recurrent interplay among figuration, abstraction, and allegory in the attempts by graphic practitioners of various kinds (from pamphlet illustrators to fine art photographers) to imagine “the market” in visual form
Anticipations of the Accident
Speed, War, and Traumatic Affect
Through an analysis of Ian McEwan's novel Atonement (2001), this essay considers the potentialities and limitations of narrative, and of representation more generally, as means of capturing and conveying the accelerated and intensely traumatic character of mechanized warfare. I show how the unflinchingly detailed depictions of mutilated bodies that feature in the novel's re-creation of the German Blitzkrieg go some way toward evoking a traumatic …
Animality and Ideology in Contemporary Economic Discourse
This article is an attempt to classify the creature known as Homo economicus . Despite its name, Homo economicus ' line of descent through classical and neoclassical economics indicates that it is barely an evolutionary relative of Homo sapiens at all -- that, in fact, it has been traditionally understood less as a living organism than as a machine. Under the pressures of an increasingly hostile intellectual environment, however, Homo economicus …
Velocities of Power
The fairground injunction to “scream if you want to go faster” has become one of the defining imperatives of advanced capitalism, the ambivalence of that scream both calling forth acceleration and announcing a terror at its prospect. Commentators on the radical time–space compression achieved by the technological developments of recent decades are as conflicted in outlook as their predecessors have been in marking the utopian and apocalyptic prom…
Speed, War, and Traumatic Affect
Through an analysis of Ian McEwan's novel Atonement (2001), this essay considers the potentialities and limitations of narrative, and of representation more generally, as means of capturing and conveying the accelerated and intensely traumatic character of mechanized warfare. I show how the unflinchingly detailed depictions of mutilated bodies that feature in the novel's re-creation of the German Blitzkrieg go some way toward evoking a traumatic …
Velocities of Power
The fairground injunction to “scream if you want to go faster” has become one of the defining imperatives of advanced capitalism, the ambivalence of that scream both calling forth acceleration and announcing a terror at its prospect. Commentators on the radical time–space compression achieved by the technological developments of recent decades are as conflicted in outlook as their predecessors have been in marking the utopian and apocalyptic prom…
Anticipations of the Accident
Blood on the Trading Floor
What a Waste of Money
The commonplace, knee-jerk response to the enormous sums realised by iconic works of postwar and contemporary art -'what a waste of money!' -is conventionally countered in three ways: by explaining that such pieces possess an aesthetic importance that fully justifies the amounts spent to acquire them; by, conversely, making the pragmatic point that artworks can often prove to be extraordinarily lucrative investments; or, in a synthesis of these p…
Is a Financial Crisis a Trauma
Imagining the Market
This curation project explores visual representations of financial markets. Focusing on phases of upheaval in transatlantic finance extending back to the early eighteenth century, it traces a recurrent interplay among figuration, abstraction, and allegory in the attempts by graphic practitioners of various kinds (from pamphlet illustrators to fine art photographers) to imagine “the market” in visual form
Animality and Ideology in Contemporary Economic Discourse
This article is an attempt to classify the creature known as Homo economicus . Despite its name, Homo economicus ' line of descent through classical and neoclassical economics indicates that it is barely an evolutionary relative of Homo sapiens at all -- that, in fact, it has been traditionally understood less as a living organism than as a machine. Under the pressures of an increasingly hostile intellectual environment, however, Homo economicus …
Economic Criticism
This inaugural chapter on ‘Economic Criticism’ surveys books published (predominantly) in 2013 and 2014 that explore the relations between culture and economics. These relations have been growing preoccupations in critical and cultural theory over the past two decades, and especially since the global financial crisis of 2008. This chapter aims to provide an overview of the state of the field as it currently stands, and, in particular, to indicate…
Litonomics
In his campus novel Nice Work, David Lodge points to a certain affinity between the practice and rhetoric of high finance and the theoretical discourses central to the study of literature. From this point of view, and as, myself, a literary scholar who has tried to find ways to bring my own disciplinary training to bear on financial and economic topics, I am especially struck, in reading these four outstanding new books, by the strong element of …
Economic Criticism
This chapter covers work in economic criticism published in 2015 (or, in one case, 2014), and explores how recent contributions to the field continue to rethink established understandings of the relations between culture and the economy. It is divided into four sections: 1. Introduction; 2. Neoliberalism, Austerity and Resistance; 3. Finance, Feeling and Form; 4. Narrative Economies.
Economic Criticism
This chapter covers work in economic criticism published in 2016, and explores how recent contributions to the field draw on existing ways of understanding the relations between culture and the economy, whilst forging new paradigms and syntheses. It is divided into five sections: 1. Introduction; 2. Projections; 3. Reading and Performing the Market; 4. Debt, Derivatives and Growth; 5. Libidinal Economy.
Economic Criticism
This chapter covers recently published work in economic criticism, exploring the interplay in this scholarship between contemporary and historical frames and the methodological approaches of economics and the humanities. It is divided into four sections: 1. Introduction; 2. Narrating the Economy; 3. Economic Histories and Cultures; 4. Economic Humanities.
A History of the Bloomsbury Group
A History of the Bloomsbury Group ranges more widely across the Bloomsbury group's interdisciplinary activities and international networks than any previous volume. From innovations in the literary and visual arts to interventions in politics and economic policy, core members including Virginia Woolf, Leonard Woolf, E. M. Forster, Lytton Strachey, Vanessa Bell, Clive Bell, Duncan Grant, Roger Fry, and John Maynard Keynes are explored in relation …
Philosophy (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Criticism (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · History (4 works)