Literature incorporated : the cultural unconscious of the business corporation, 1650-1850 /

Long before Citizens United and modern debates over corporations as people, such organizations already stood between the public and private as both vehicles for commerce and imaginative constructs based on groups of individuals. In this book, John O'Brien explores how this relationship played o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: O'Brien, John, 1962- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
Temas:
1500-1899
Corporations in literature.
Businesspeople in literature.
Business literature > Great Britain.
Corporations > Great Britain > History.
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Affaires > Documentation > Grande-Bretagne.
Sociétés > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
Littérature anglaise > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature anglaise > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Business literature.
Corporations.
English literature.
English literature > Early modern.
Englisch
Literatur
Unternehmen > Motiv
Great Britain.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: the corporation as metaphor
  • John Locke, desire, and the incorporation of money
  • Wonderful event: the South Sea bubble and the crisis of property
  • Insurance and the problem of sentimental representation
  • "Bodies of men": abolitionist writing and the question of interest
  • Held in reserve: banks, serial crises, and the ekphrastic turn
  • Coda: the entrepreneur as corporate hero.

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