| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 223 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Colonialism, displacement and cannibalism in early modern economic thought / Hugh Goodacre -- Accounting capital, race and Benjamin Franklin's 'pecuniary habits' of mind in The autobiography / Rekha Rosha -- A system illusory and immoral: Jonathan Swift and the emergence of the modern economic polity / Christopher J. Fauske -- Payments of attention: epitaphic cash flow in Gray and Wordsworth / György Fogarasi -- Money, manhood and suffrage in Our mutual friend / Ruth Livesey -- Feverish speculation: the railway across the Isthmus of Panama / Marian Aguiar -- Reading finance capital / Leigh Claire La Berge -- The gold standard and literature: money and language in the work of Jean-Joseph Goux / Ben Roberts -- Producing and consuming agricultural capital: the aesthetics and cultural politics of grain elevators at the 1937 Paris International Exposition / Guillaume Evrard -- Finance and film: Wall Street myth and mythopoeia / Elton G. McGoun -- Re-presenting capital in culture: the necessary persistence of memory in a new century / Robert J. Balfour |
| Summary |
Culture, Capital and Representation explores how literature, cultural studies and the visual arts represent, interact with, and produce ideas about capital, whether in its early phases (the growth of stock markets) or in its late phase (global speculative capital). Authors in the volume are concerned with the representation of issues such as speculation, displacement, exploitation, capital growth, the decline of the welfare state, and the growth of surplus migrant populations. The contributions range over three centuries and attempt to trace issues arising from the dominance of capitalism, the primary means by which we understand our work, organize economies, and ascribe value to people and money, depending on their location within the capitalist system |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
European literature -- History and criticism
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Capitalism in literature.
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Economics in literature.
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Literary studies: general.
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Sociology & anthropology.
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TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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Literature.
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Capitalism in literature
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Economics in literature
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European literature
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Europeisk litteratur -- historia.
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Ekonomi i litteraturen.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Balfour, Robert, 1971-
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| LC no. |
2010023748 |
| ISBN |
9780230291195 |
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0230291198 |
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128299784X |
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9781282997844 |
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