PART
1: WHY THE SUPER-RICH, AND WHY LITERATURE?
1.
Introduction
2.
The Mapmaker’s Dilemma in Evaluating High-End Inequality
PART
2: ENGLAND AND FRANCE DURING THE AGE OF REVOLUTION
Introduction
to Part 2
3.
Why Aren’t Things Better Than This? Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
4.
A Rising Tide Rocks All Boats: The Threat of Rising Prosperity in Stendhal’s Le Rouge et le Noir
5.
The Arriviste as Morally Compromised Cat’s Paw: Balzac’s Le Père
Goriot and La Maison Nucingen
Summing
Up Part 2
PART
3: ENGLAND FROM THE MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY THROUGH THE START OF WORLD WAR I
Introduction
to Part 3
6. Art, Heart, and “Schmart” in Charles Dickens’
A Christmas Carol
Chapter 8, which will conclude Part 3, is almost certainly going to discuss E.M. Forster's Howards End. I have thought about discussing Saki's The Unbearable Bassington, which I love, but choosing Forster is probably preferable on multiple grounds.
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