O'Brien, John. Literature incorporated : the cultural unconscious of the business corporation, 1650 - 1850

Folger bibliographic ID: 351209
Folger call number: PR149.C667 O37 2016
Folger holdings ID: 499862

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

Extended title: Literature incorporated : the cultural unconscious of the business corporation, 1650 - 1850 / John O'Brien

Corporations in literature Businesspeople in literature Business literature Corporations English literature Great Britain Englisch Literatur Unternehmen

author: O'Brien, John, 1962-