Literature incorporated : the cultural unconscious of the business corporation, 1650-1850 / John O'Brien.
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TextPublisher: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2016Description: 1 online resource : illustrationsContent type: - text
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- 022629126X
- 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
- Businesspeople in literature
- Corporations
- Corporations in literature
- English literature
- English literature -- Early modern
- Great Britain
- Englisch
- Literatur
- Unternehmen Motiv
- 1500-1899
- 820.9/3553 23
- PR149.C667 O37 2016eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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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 out in economics and literature, two fields that gained prominence in the same era. Examining British and American essays, poems, novels, and stories from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, O'Brien pursues the idea of incorporation as a trope discernible in a wide range of texts.
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