Culture, Capital and Representation [electronic resource] /
Balfour, R.editor.
With contributions ranging over three centuries, Culture, Capital and Representation explores how literature, cultural studies and the visual arts represent, interact with, and produce ideas about capital, whether in its early phases (the growth of stock markets) or in its late phase (global speculative capital).
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; Introduction: Culture, Capital and Representation; 1 Colonialism, Displacement and Cannibalism in Early Modern Economic Thought; 2 Accounting Capital, Race and Benjamin Franklin's 'Pecuniary Habits' of Mind in The Autobiography; 3 A System Illusory and Immoral: Jonathan Swift and the Emergence of the Modern Economic Polity; 4 Payments of Attention: Epitaphic Cash Flow in Gray and Wordsworth; 5 Money, Manhood and Suffrage in Our Mutual Friend; 6 Feverish Speculation: the Railway Across the Isthmus of Panama
7 Reading Finance Capital8 The Gold Standard and Literature: Money and Language in the Work of Jean-Joseph Goux; 9 Producing and Consuming Agricultural Capital: the Aesthetics and Cultural Politics of Grain Elevators at the 1937 Paris International Exposition; 10 Finance and Film: Wall Street Myth and Mythopoeia; 11 Conclusion: Re-presenting Capital in Culture: the Necessary Persistence of Memory in a New Century; Bibliography; Index
"In association with the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, and the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
With contributions ranging over three centuries, Culture, Capital and Representation explores how literature, cultural studies and the visual arts represent, interact with, and produce ideas about capital, whether in its early phases (the growth of stock markets) or in its late phase (global speculative capital).
Literature-Philosophy.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Literature, Modern-20th century.
Sociology.
British literature.
America-Literatures.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Sociology, general.
British and Irish Literature.
North American Literature.