Merchants, barons, sellers and suits : the changing images of the businessman through literature / / edited by Christa Mahalik

• Pubblicazione: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (355 p.)
• Disciplina: 809.33553
• Soggetto topico: Businessmen in literature; Business in literature
• Altri autori: MahalikChrista
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; A GENTLEMAN'S BUSINESS; CATCHING THE ELUSIVE CONSUMER; THE SOI-DISANT HERO'S SUICIDE; THE CONSUMED CONSUMER; SHYLOCK AS THE AMERICAN CAPITALIST; REVISING REPUTATIONS; FROM OPTIMISM TO ENNUI; 'BUT HE AINT NEVER BIN SEEN!'; STOCK CHARACTERS; THE WALL STREET BUSINESSMAN GOES METROSEXUAL; THE WORK OF LITERATURE IN THE AGE OF THE OFFICE; DENMARK INC; SURVIVING THE ECONOMY; THE LIMITS OF POPULAR REPRESENTATION; THE DADDY ANTIDOTE; CONTRIBUTORS
• Sommario/riassunto: Merchants, Barons, Sellers and Suits: The Changing Images of the Businessman through Literature originally began as a conversation about a hybrid course at Quinnipiac University. Its purpose was to take an online English course for non-traditional business majors and create a theme that would be relevant to the business world. Being given the task to create this course from the ground up was exciting and intriguing. There turned out to be a lot more material that could be used for this theme ...
• Titolo autorizzato: Merchants, barons, sellers and suits
• ISBN: 1-283-14149-3; 1-4438-2462-3; 9786613141491
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910822120003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II