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The Corporation in the Nineteenth-Century American Imagination /
The first study of the representation of corporations in US law, literature, and culture Covers key topics in company law including the emergence of corporate personhood, the regulation of monopolies, the piercing of the corporate veil, agent-principal relationships and examines their literary and c...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2022]
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| Colección: | Edinburgh Critical Studies in Law, Literature and the Humanities
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Many and the One: Corporate Bodies and the Body Politic in US Law and Culture
- 1 Narrating Monopoly and Empire: Austin, Irving, and the Charles River Bridge Case
- 2 The Soulless Corporation: Cooper and the Decline of the Republic
- 3 Satanic Corporate Agents in the Marketplace: Hawthorne, Melville, De Forest, and the Uses of Allegory
- 4 Incorporating the Nation: Ruiz de Burton and "Quasi Public" Corporations
- 5 The End of Individualism: Tarbell, Norris, and the Power of Combinations
- Conclusion: Frankenstein in a Gray Flannel Suit
- Bibliography
- Index