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Literature incorporated : the cultural unconscious of the business corporation, 1650-1850
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- Creator
- John O'Brien
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [2016]
- Physical Details
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- v, 268 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780226291123, 022629112X, 9780226291260
- OCLC
- ocn907196564
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-255) 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
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.