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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: O'Brien, John, 1962- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2016.
Subjects:
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.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.