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Creator
Date
2016
Location
Chicago
Illinois
Illinois
Media format
Printed text
Extent
v, 268 pages : illustrations
Language
English
Size
24 cm
Reference IDs
Folger bibliographic ID: 351209
Folger call number: PR149.C667 O37 2016
Folger holdings ID: 499862
Folger call number: PR149.C667 O37 2016
Folger holdings ID: 499862
Notes
General notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-255) and index
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
Also known as
Extended title: Literature incorporated : the cultural unconscious of the business corporation, 1650 - 1850 / John O'Brien
Subjects
Related names
author: O'Brien, John, 1962-