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This multidisciplinary collection of essays provides a means to appreciate the richness and variety of fictional portrayals of businesses and businesspersons. The works selected for examination reflect the variety of philosophical, political, economic, cultural, social, and ethical perspectives that have been found in American society over time.

Capitalism and literature. --- Commerce in literature.

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Sir Walter Scott is often regarded as the first historical novelist. Reinventing Liberty challenges this view by returning us to the rich range of historical fiction written in the late 18th and early 19th century. For the first time placing these works in the context of British politics and British history writing, this book redefines the historical novel, revealing a genre which seeks to manage political change through historiographical experimentation. It explores how historical novelists participated in a contentious debate concerning the nature of commercial modernity, the formulation of political progress and British national identity. Ranging across well-known writers, like William Godwin, Horace Walpole and Frances Burney, to lesser-known figures, such as Cornelia Ellis Knight and Jane Porter, Reinventing Liberty uncovers how history becomes a site to rethink Britain as 'land of liberty'. Reading Scott in relation to this tradition, Reinventing Liberty demonstrates the genre's troubled role in the construction of the myth of Britain as a nation of gradual, safe political change

Historical fiction, English --- English literature --- Liberty in literature. --- Commerce in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Literature --- Antiquarian --- Chivalry

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"Although postcolonialism has emerged as one of the most significant theoretical movements in literary and cultural studies, it has paid scant attention to the importance of trade and trade relations to debates about culture. Focusing on the past two centuries, this volume investigates the links among trade, colonialism, and forms of representation, posing the question, 'What is the historical or modern relationship between economic inequality and imperial patterns of representation and reading?' Rather than dealing exclusively with a particular industry or type of industry, the contributors take up the issue of how various economies have been represented in Aboriginal art; in literature by North American, Caribbean, Portuguese, South African, First nation's, Australian, British, and Aboriginal authors; and in a diverse range of writings that includes travel diaries, missionary texts, the findings of the Leprosy Investigation Commission, early medical accounts and media representations of HIV/AIDS. Examining trade in commodities as various as illicit drugs, liquor, bananas, tourism, adventure fiction, and modern Aboriginal art, as well as cultural exchanges in politics, medicine, and literature, the essays reflect the widespread origins of the contributors themselves, who are based throughout the English-speaking world. Taken as a whole, this book contests the commonplace view promoted by some modern economists-that trade in and of itself has a leveling effect, equalising cultures, places, and peoples-demonstrating instead the ways in which commerce has created and exacerbated differences in power."--Provided by publisher.

English literature --- Colonies in literature. --- Commerce in literature. --- Capitalism in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Colonies --- Commerce --- History. --- Social aspects. --- Trade --- Economics --- Business --- Transportation --- Anti-colonialism --- Colonial affairs --- Colonialism --- Neocolonialism --- Imperialism --- Non-self-governing territories --- Colonization

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Paul Keen explores how a consumer revolution which reached its peak in the second half of the eighteenth century shaped debates about the role of literature in a polite modern nation, and tells the story of the resourcefulness with which many writers responded to these pressures. From dream reveries which mocked their own entrepreneurial commitments, such as Oliver Goldsmith's account of selling his work at a 'Fashion Fair' on the frozen Thames, to the Microcosm's mock plan to establish 'a licensed warehouse for wit', writers insistently tied their literary achievements to a sophisticated understanding of the uncertain complexities of a modern transactional society. This book combines a new understanding of late eighteenth-century literature with the materialist and sociological imperatives of book history and theoretically inflected approaches to cultural history.

Commerce in literature --- English literature --- Literature and society --- Materialism in literature --- Modernism (Literature) --- National characteristics, British, in literature --- 82 "17" --- 82:30 --- 930.85 --- 930.85 Cultuurgeschiedenis. Kultuurgeschiedenis --- Cultuurgeschiedenis. Kultuurgeschiedenis --- 82 "17" Literatuur. Algemene literatuurwetenschap--18e eeuw. Periode 1700-1799 --- Literatuur. Algemene literatuurwetenschap--18e eeuw. Periode 1700-1799 --- History and criticism --- History --- Literatuur en maatschappijwetenschappen --- Commerce in literature. --- Materialism in literature. --- National characteristics, British, in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature

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British culture underwent radical change in the eighteenth century with the emergence of new literary genres and new discourses of social analysis. As novelists developed new forms of fiction, writers of economic tracts and treatises sought a new language and a conceptual framework to describe the modern commercial state. In Commerce, Morality and the Eighteenth-Century Novel, Liz Bellamy argues that the evolution of the novel in eighteenth-century Britain needs to be seen in the context of the discursive conflict between economics and more traditional systems of social analysis. In a series of fresh readings of a wide range of novels, Bellamy shows how the novel contributed to the debate over public and private virtues and had to negotiate between commercial and anti-commercial ethics. The resulting choices were crucial in determining the structure as well as the moral content of the novel.

English fiction --- Commerce in literature. --- Didactic fiction, English --- Literature and morals --- Commerce --- Moral conditions in literature. --- Ethics, Modern --- Ethics in literature. --- Trade --- Economics --- Business --- Transportation --- Literature --- Morals and literature --- Ethics --- History and criticism. --- History --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Influence --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Traffic (Commerce) --- Merchants --- Arts and Humanities