Capitalism and commerce in imaginative literature : perspectives on business from novels and plays / / edited by Edward W. Younkins |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham : , : Lexington Books, , [2016] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (402 p.) |
Disciplina | 330.122 |
Collana | Capitalist thought : studies in philosophy, politics, and economics |
Soggetto topico |
Capitalism and literature
Commerce in literature |
ISBN | 1-4985-1930-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover-Page; Halftitle; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1 Capitalism and Commerce in Novels and Plays; 2 Epic and the Medium of Exchange; 3 The Cost of War and the Profits of Peace in Aristophanes' Acharnians; 4 A Time for Bonding: Commerce, Love, and Law in The Merchant of Venice; 5 Human Action: Pursuing Happiness Inside and Outside the Happy Valley; 6 The Rime of the Neoclassical Economist: The Economist's Failure at Spreading the Passion of Capitalism; 7 Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South: Industrial Energy Versus "The Idiocies of Rural Life"
8 Where Have You Gone, Horatio Alger: A Long Gone Literary Hero and the Bourgeois Virtues9 Crony Capitalism in The Gilded Age by Twain and Warner and Its Relevance for Today; 10 Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People; 11 William Dean Howells' Work Ethic in The Rise of Silas Lapham; 12 Capitalism Contra Ethics: William Dean Howells and the Moral Ambivalence of Business; 13 The Panic of '93: The Literary Response; 14 Heroism Redefined: Integrating Mind and Emotion in Calumet "K"; 15 Women's Work: Edna Ferber, Emma McChesney, and the Portrait of the American Businesswoman 16 The Great Gatsby: A Commentary on the Wealthy in America of the 1920s17 Steinbeck's Perspectives on Capitalism: From The Grapes of Wrath to East of Eden; 18 Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, and Libertarianism; 19 The Freedom Gradient in Ayn Rand's Novels; 20 Identity, Professional Ethics, and Substantive Style in The Fountainhead; 21 Business in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged; 22 Business as an Agent of Human Progress in Time Will Run Back, Methuselah's Children, and The Transhumanist Wager; 23 Rabbit in the Showroom: Healthy, Wealthy, and No Place Left to Run; 24 Roger Rueff's Hospitality Suite 25 Writing, Money, Markets, Slavery, and Unintended Consequences at the Beginning of History: Samuel R. Delany's Return to Nevèrÿon26 "We Do Not Sow": The Economics and Politics of A Song of Ice and Fire; 27 Harry Potter and the Invisible Hand; or, the Virtue of Business That Is Not Serious; 28 Race, Rules, and Real Estate in August Wilson's Radio Golf; Index; About the Contributors |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910798292403321 |
Lanham : , : Lexington Books, , [2016] | ||
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Capitalism and commerce in imaginative literature : perspectives on business from novels and plays / / edited by Edward W. Younkins |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham : , : Lexington Books, , [2016] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (402 p.) |
Disciplina | 330.122 |
Collana | Capitalist thought : studies in philosophy, politics, and economics |
Soggetto topico |
Capitalism and literature
Commerce in literature |
ISBN | 1-4985-1930-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover-Page; Halftitle; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1 Capitalism and Commerce in Novels and Plays; 2 Epic and the Medium of Exchange; 3 The Cost of War and the Profits of Peace in Aristophanes' Acharnians; 4 A Time for Bonding: Commerce, Love, and Law in The Merchant of Venice; 5 Human Action: Pursuing Happiness Inside and Outside the Happy Valley; 6 The Rime of the Neoclassical Economist: The Economist's Failure at Spreading the Passion of Capitalism; 7 Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South: Industrial Energy Versus "The Idiocies of Rural Life"
8 Where Have You Gone, Horatio Alger: A Long Gone Literary Hero and the Bourgeois Virtues9 Crony Capitalism in The Gilded Age by Twain and Warner and Its Relevance for Today; 10 Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People; 11 William Dean Howells' Work Ethic in The Rise of Silas Lapham; 12 Capitalism Contra Ethics: William Dean Howells and the Moral Ambivalence of Business; 13 The Panic of '93: The Literary Response; 14 Heroism Redefined: Integrating Mind and Emotion in Calumet "K"; 15 Women's Work: Edna Ferber, Emma McChesney, and the Portrait of the American Businesswoman 16 The Great Gatsby: A Commentary on the Wealthy in America of the 1920s17 Steinbeck's Perspectives on Capitalism: From The Grapes of Wrath to East of Eden; 18 Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, and Libertarianism; 19 The Freedom Gradient in Ayn Rand's Novels; 20 Identity, Professional Ethics, and Substantive Style in The Fountainhead; 21 Business in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged; 22 Business as an Agent of Human Progress in Time Will Run Back, Methuselah's Children, and The Transhumanist Wager; 23 Rabbit in the Showroom: Healthy, Wealthy, and No Place Left to Run; 24 Roger Rueff's Hospitality Suite 25 Writing, Money, Markets, Slavery, and Unintended Consequences at the Beginning of History: Samuel R. Delany's Return to Nevèrÿon26 "We Do Not Sow": The Economics and Politics of A Song of Ice and Fire; 27 Harry Potter and the Invisible Hand; or, the Virtue of Business That Is Not Serious; 28 Race, Rules, and Real Estate in August Wilson's Radio Golf; Index; About the Contributors |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910818099403321 |
Lanham : , : Lexington Books, , [2016] | ||
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Exit capitalism : literary culture, theory, and post-secular modernity / / Simon During |
Autore | During Simon <1950-, > |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (208 p.) |
Disciplina | 809/.933553 |
Soggetto topico |
Capitalism and literature
Literature, Modern - History and criticism Capitalism - Social aspects - History Culture - Study and teaching |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-135-27868-7
1-135-27869-5 1-282-28333-2 9786612283338 0-203-87264-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Part I Modernizing the English literary field; Chapter 1 Church, state, and modernization: Literature as gentlemanly knowledge after 1688; Chapter 2 Quackery, selfhood, and the emergence of the modern cultural marketplace; Chapter 3 Interesting: The politics of the sympathetic imagination; Part II Towards endgame capitalism Literature, theory, culture; Chapter 4 World literature, Stalinism, and the nation: Christina Stead as lost object; Chapter 5 Socialist ends: The emergence of academic theory in post-war Britain
Chapter 6 Completing secularism: The mundane in the neo-liberal eraChapter 7 Refusing capitalism?: Theory and cultural studies after 1968; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454276203321 |
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Exit capitalism : literary culture, theory, and post-secular modernity / / Simon During |
Autore | During Simon <1950-, > |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (208 p.) |
Disciplina | 809/.933553 |
Soggetto topico |
Capitalism and literature
Literature, Modern - History and criticism Capitalism - Social aspects - History Culture - Study and teaching |
ISBN |
1-135-27868-7
1-135-27869-5 1-282-28333-2 9786612283338 0-203-87264-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Part I Modernizing the English literary field; Chapter 1 Church, state, and modernization: Literature as gentlemanly knowledge after 1688; Chapter 2 Quackery, selfhood, and the emergence of the modern cultural marketplace; Chapter 3 Interesting: The politics of the sympathetic imagination; Part II Towards endgame capitalism Literature, theory, culture; Chapter 4 World literature, Stalinism, and the nation: Christina Stead as lost object; Chapter 5 Socialist ends: The emergence of academic theory in post-war Britain
Chapter 6 Completing secularism: The mundane in the neo-liberal eraChapter 7 Refusing capitalism?: Theory and cultural studies after 1968; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777908903321 |
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Exit capitalism : literary culture, theory, and post-secular modernity / / Simon During |
Autore | During Simon <1950-, > |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (208 p.) |
Disciplina | 809/.933553 |
Soggetto topico |
Capitalism and literature
Literature, Modern - History and criticism Capitalism - Social aspects - History Culture - Study and teaching |
ISBN |
1-135-27868-7
1-135-27869-5 1-282-28333-2 9786612283338 0-203-87264-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Part I Modernizing the English literary field; Chapter 1 Church, state, and modernization: Literature as gentlemanly knowledge after 1688; Chapter 2 Quackery, selfhood, and the emergence of the modern cultural marketplace; Chapter 3 Interesting: The politics of the sympathetic imagination; Part II Towards endgame capitalism Literature, theory, culture; Chapter 4 World literature, Stalinism, and the nation: Christina Stead as lost object; Chapter 5 Socialist ends: The emergence of academic theory in post-war Britain
Chapter 6 Completing secularism: The mundane in the neo-liberal eraChapter 7 Refusing capitalism?: Theory and cultural studies after 1968; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910799951003321 |
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Jane Austen and the state / / Mary Evans |
Autore | Evans Mary <1946-, > |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (111 p.) |
Disciplina | 823.7 |
Collana | Routledge library editions. Jane Austen |
Soggetto topico |
Politics and literature - Great Britain - History - 19th century
Social problems in literature Capitalism and literature Economics in literature |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-283-64299-9
0-203-81316-2 1-136-69805-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Cover; JANE AUSTEN AND THE STATE; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 The world of Jane Austen; 2 Property relations; 3 Questioning the patriarchal order; 4 Women, men, and the state; Conclusion; Notes; List of works consulted or cited in the text; Name index; Subject index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910461950203321 |
Evans Mary <1946-, >
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Jane Austen and the state / / Mary Evans |
Autore | Evans Mary <1946-, > |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (111 p.) |
Disciplina | 823.7 |
Collana | Routledge library editions. Jane Austen |
Soggetto topico |
Politics and literature - Great Britain - History - 19th century
Social problems in literature Capitalism and literature Economics in literature |
ISBN |
1-283-64299-9
0-203-81316-2 1-136-69805-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Cover; JANE AUSTEN AND THE STATE; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 The world of Jane Austen; 2 Property relations; 3 Questioning the patriarchal order; 4 Women, men, and the state; Conclusion; Notes; List of works consulted or cited in the text; Name index; Subject index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910785992903321 |
Evans Mary <1946-, >
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The matter of capital [[electronic resource] ] : poetry and crisis in the American century / / Christopher Nealon |
Autore | Nealon Christopher S (Christopher Shaun), <1967-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, c2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (194 p.) |
Disciplina | 811/.54093553 |
Soggetto topico |
American poetry - 20th century - History and criticism
American poetry - 21st century - History and criticism Capitalism and literature |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-674-06116-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. A Method and a Tone: Pound, Auden, and the Legacy of the Interwar Years -- 2. John Ashbery's Optional Apocalypse -- 3. "Language" in Spicer and After -- 4. Bubble and Crash: Poetry in Late- Late Capitalism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910461291603321 |
Nealon Christopher S (Christopher Shaun), <1967->
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The matter of capital : poetry and crisis in the American century / / Christopher Nealon |
Autore | Nealon Christopher S (Christopher Shaun), <1967-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (194 p.) |
Disciplina | 811/.54093553 |
Soggetto topico |
American poetry - 20th century - History and criticism
American poetry - 21st century - History and criticism Capitalism and literature |
ISBN | 0-674-06116-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. A Method and a Tone: Pound, Auden, and the Legacy of the Interwar Years -- 2. John Ashbery's Optional Apocalypse -- 3. "Language" in Spicer and After -- 4. Bubble and Crash: Poetry in Late- Late Capitalism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910789413803321 |
Nealon Christopher S (Christopher Shaun), <1967->
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Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2011 | ||
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Modernist goods : primitivism, the market, and the gift / / Glenn Willmott |
Autore | Willmott Glenn <1963-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (339 p.) |
Disciplina | 820.9 |
Soggetto topico |
English literature - 20th century - History and criticism
Modernism (Literature) Primitivism Literature and anthropology Capitalism and literature Economics and literature Politics and literature |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 1-4426-8864-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Beyond Primitivism -- Part 1: After Strange Goods: The Economic Unconscious of Imperialist Modernity -- Part 2: Multiplying the Public: Abject Modernism and Its Institutions -- Part 3: The Parodic Shaman: Imperialist Modernity and the Blackened Gift -- Part 4: The Impure House: Re-imagining Aboriginal Modernity -- Conclusion: Modernism and Utopia -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910456773803321 |
Willmott Glenn <1963->
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Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2008 | ||
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