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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.
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This study examines the structural similarities between English mercantile treatises and drama c1600-1642. Bradley D. Ryner analyses the representational conventions of plays and mercantile treatises written between the chartering of the English East India Company in 1600 and the closing of the public playhouses at the outset of the English Civil War in 1642. He shows that playwrights' manipulation of specific elements of theatrical representation - such as metaphor, props, dramatic character, stage space, audience interaction, and genre - exacerbated the tension between the aspects of the wor
English drama --- Mercantile system in literature. --- Economics in literature. --- Commerce in literature. --- History and criticism.
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Economics, in our modern sense of the term, was not a discipline in the Middle Ages, although the history of economic thought is often written as though it were. Lianna Farber restores the core economic concept of trade to its medieval contexts, showing that it contains three component parts: value, consent, and community. Medieval writing about trade not only relies on these elements, it presents them as unproblematic.By addressing texts in which each element of trade is discussed directly, Farber demonstrates that this straightforward picture is falsely reassuring. In fact, these ideas were deeply contested. In the end, Farber reveals, writing about trade was not descriptive but argumentative, analyzing the act in an attempt to justify it. Such texts reveal deep intellectual uncertainties about the market society they advocated. An Anatomy of Trade in Medieval Writing benefits from Farber's close reading of literary sources, among them the poetry of Geoffrey Chaucer and Robert Henryson; theological sources, including the writing of Thomas Aquinas and Richard of Middleton; and legal sources such as the canon law on marriage formation. A provocative contribution to our understanding of medieval life and thought, this book implies a need to reconsider the genealogy of economics as a way of thinking about the world.
Commerce in literature. --- Economics --- Commerce --- Economic theory --- Political economy --- Social sciences --- Economic man --- Moral and ethical aspects --- History. --- History --- Europe --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia
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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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By examining the often marginal figure of the pirate (and also the hard-to-distinguish privateer), The Culture of Piracy, 1580-1630 shows how flexibly these figures served to comment on English nationalism, international relations, and contemporary politics. The first book-length treatment of the cultural impact of Renaissance piracy, this study underlines how despite its transgressive nature, piracy can be seen as a key mechanism which served to connect peoples and regions.
Thematology --- English literature --- anno 1500-1599 --- anno 1600-1699 --- Crime in literature. --- Pirates in literature. --- Politics and literature --- Privateering --- Commerce in literature. --- Corsairs --- Naval art and science --- Naval history --- Piracy --- Literature --- Literature and politics --- History and criticism. --- History --- Political aspects
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"The British historical novel has often been defined in the terms set by Walter Scott's fiction, as a reflection on a clear break between past and present. Reinventing Liberty challenges this view by returning us to the rich range of historical novels written in the late eighteenth-century. It explores how these works participated in a contentious debate concerning political change and British national identity. Ranging across well-known writers, such as William Godwin, Horace Walpole and Frances Burney, to lesser-known figures, including Cornelia Ellis Knight and Jane Porter, 'Reinventing Liberty' reveals how history becomes a site to rethink Britain as 'land of liberty' and positions Scott in relation to this tradition."--
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Cornell University Press Economics, in our modern sense of the term, was not a discipline in the Middle Ages, although the history of economic thought is often written as though it were. Lianna Farber restores the core economic concept of trade to its medieval contexts, showing that it contains three component parts: value, consent, and community. Medieval writing about trade not only relies on these elements, it presents them as unproblematic.
History of Europe --- History as a science --- anno 500-1499 --- Commerce dans la littérature --- Commerce in literature --- Handel in de literatuur --- Commerce in literature. --- Commerce --- Economics --- History --- Moral and ethical aspects --- History. --- Europe --- Economic theory --- Political economy --- Social sciences --- Economic man --- Moral and ethical aspects&delete& --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- To 1800 --- Medieval, 500-1500 --- To 1500 --- Middle Ages, 500-1500 --- Dans la littérature --- Moyen âge --- Enseignement patristique
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Economics in literature --- English fiction --- Commerce in literature --- Business in literature --- Businessmen in literature --- Capitalists and financiers in literature --- History and criticism --- -English literature --- Commerce in literature. --- Business in literature. --- Economics in literature. --- Capitalists and financiers in literature. --- Businessmen in literature. --- Romans. --- Handel. --- Engels. --- Roman anglais --- Commerce --- Littérature anglaise --- English fiction. --- Fiction in English, 1837-1900. --- History and criticism. --- Thèmes, motifs. --- Dans la littérature. --- Histoire et critique. --- Special subjects: Commerce - Critical studies --- 1800-1899. --- Special subjects: Commerce - Critical studies. --- -History and criticism --- English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism --- Commerce dans la litterature --- 19e siecle --- Histoire et critique
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The commercial revolution of the seventeenth century deeply changed English culture. In this ambitious book, Blair Hoxby explores what that economic transformation meant to the century's greatest poet, John Milton, and to the broader literary tradition in which he worked. Hoxby places Milton's work-as well as the writings of contemporary reformers like the Levellers, poets like John Dryden, and political economists like Sir William Petty-within the framework of England's economic history between 1601 and 1724. Literary history swerved in this period, Hoxby demonstrates, as a burgeoning economic discourse pressed authors to reimagine ideas about self, community, and empire. Hoxby shows that, contrary to commonly held views, Milton was a sophisticated economic thinker. Close readings of Milton's prose and verse reveal the importance of economic ideas in a wide range of his most famous writings, from Areopagitica to Samson Agonistes to Paradise Lost.
Economics and literature --- Economics in literature. --- History --- Commerce in literature. --- Literature --- Literature and economics --- Economic aspects --- Milton, John, --- Milṭan, Jān, --- Milʹton, Dzhon, --- Милтон, Джон, --- Miltūn, Zhūn, --- Miltonus, Joannes, --- J. M. --- M., J. --- Milʹton, Īoann, --- Milton, Gioanni, --- Milton, Giovanni, --- מילטאן, יאהאן --- מילטאן, יוחנן --- מילטון, ג׳והן --- מלטן, יוחנן --- Knowledge --- Economics.
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Combining psychoanalysis, structural and economic anthropology, this book treats Joseph Conrad's interests in exchange, contracts, and the condition of displacement. This is the first extended academic discussion of the social contract idea in the novelist's fiction. Furthermore, the simultaneous concentration on various fields of circulation (for example finances, dialogues, representations of women, or colonial mechanisms) invites the use of theories (Lacan, LZvi-Strauss, Simmel, Polanyi and Bataille) whose potentials for Conrad scholarship have not been exhausted (especially not in combinat
Immigrants in literature. --- Social contract in literature. --- Commerce in literature. --- Displacement (Psychology) in literature. --- Identity (Psychology) in literature. --- Psychoanalysis and literature. --- Literature and psychoanalysis --- Psychoanalytic literary criticism --- Literature --- Conrad, Joseph, --- Korzeniowski, Józef Konrad Teodor, --- Korzeniowski, Joseph Conrad Theodore, --- Konrad, Dzhozef, --- Kʻang-la-te, --- Conrad-Korzeniowski, Joseph, --- Korzeniowski, Joseph Conrad-, --- Kʻonradŭ, Josep, --- Kʻonradŭ, Chosep, --- Kʻolladŭ, Josep, --- Konrad, Dzd. --- Conrad, Józef, --- קונראד, ג׳וזף, --- קונראד, ג׳וסף --- קונרד, ג׳וזף --- קונרד, ג׳וזף, --- קונרד, יוסף --- 康拉德, --- Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowsky, Jozef Tedor, --- Konrant, Tzozeph, --- Criticism and interpretation.
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