- Notes on Citation
- Introduction: The Economics of Narrative
- The Role of Economic Criticism
- The Importance of the Publishing Context
- Literature as Transaction
- The Notion of Literary Value
- Balzac, Dostoevsky, and Zola
- 1. Balzac: Narrative as Business
- “Phrase-Mongers” (Marchands de phrases)
- La Torpille: Experiments in Narrative Value
- Esther: The Prospectus, Production Model
- Lucien: Deconstructing the Prospectus
- Vautrin: Vautrin or Vaut rien—Who Decides?
- 2. Dostoevsky: Who Buys the Story?
- Reform, Experiment, and the Novel
- How to Write a Novel?
- The Novel as Prospectus
- The Rejection of Prospectus
- Auction: The Return of Commercial Value
- Speculation
- 3. Zola: The Business of Narrative
- The Commercialisation of the Book
- The New Economics of Fiction
- Zola as Promoter of Story and Book
- From Promoter to Managing Director
- La Curée: The Narrative of Business
- L’Argent: The Business of Narrative
- Conclusion: Accounts
- Appendix A: Serialisation of The Brothers Karamazov
- Appendix B: The Thirty-Eight Retellings of the Murder of Fedor Karamazov
- Notes
- Acknowledgements
- Index
Selling the Story
Transaction and Narrative Value in Balzac, Dostoevsky, and Zola
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