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Literature incorporated: the cultural unconscious of the business corporation, 1650-1850

By John , O'Brien

Book information

Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Year
2016
ISBN
9780226291123, 9780226291260, 022629112X
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3032842 bytes)
Pages
v, 268 pages ; 24 cm\275
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
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Description

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

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