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David Anthony (2009).
Paper Money Men: Commerce, Manhood, and the Sensational Public
Sphere in Antebellum America. (Columbus, OH: Ohio
State University Press, 225 p.). Associate Professor of English
(Southern Illinois University). American literature --19th
century --History and criticism; Economics in literature;
Masculinity in literature; Money in literature; Wealth in
literature; Masculinity --Economic aspects --United States;
Sensationalism in literature. Emergence of "sensational public
sphere" in antebellum America (penny press newspapers, pulpy
dime novels to work of Irving, Hawthorne, Melville): 1) helped shape intricate
relationship between commerce, masculine sensibility
in period of dramatic economic upheaval
(vs.
addressing primarily working-class audience); 2) aimed principally at emergent class of young professional
men caught in transition from older, more stable mercantilist
economy to panic-prone economic system centered on credit and
speculation; new models of professional
manhood were repeatedly staged, negotiated; alternative models
of manhood rejected; fiscal security, property as markers of
stable selfhood; looked toward intangible factors (emotion,
race) in effort to forge secure sense of manhood in age of
intense uncertainty.
Joseph L. Badaracco, Jr. (2006).
Questions of Character: Illuminating the Heart of Leadership
Through Literature. (Boston, MA: Harvard Business School
Press, 221 p.). John Shad Professor of Business Ethics at
Harvard Business School. Leadership; Leadership--Moral and
ethical aspects. Eight fundamental challenges that test leader’s
character, proposes exploring them through literature.
Gordon Bigelow (2003).
Fiction, Famine, and the Rise of Economics in Victorian Britain
and Ireland. (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press,
229 p.). Assistant Professor of English (Rhodes College).
Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865 --Knowledge--Economics;
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 --Knowledge--Economics; Dickens,
Charles, 1812-1870. Bleak House; English fiction--19th
century--History and criticism; Economics in literature;
Economics--Great Britain--History--19th century;
Ireland--History--Famine, 1845-1852--Historiography.
Hans Christoph Binswanger; translated by J.E.
Harrison; with a postscript by Iring Fetscher (1994). Money
and Magic: A Critique of the Modern Economy in the Light of
Goethe’s Faust. (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press,
133 p.). Professor Emeritus in Economics (University of St.
Gallen, Switzerland). Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von,
1749-1832. Faust; Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832
--Knowledge --Economics; Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832
--Knowledge --Alchemy; Economics in literature; Alchemy in
literature. Modern money systems have deep
roots in alchemy (Renaissance science of turning base metals
into gold); Faust (1832) through lens of economics; Goethe's
preoccupation with financial matters - warning about dangers of
pursuing endless wealth.
Joseph Bizup (2003).
Manufacturing Culture: Vindications of Early Victorian Industry.
(Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 229 p.).
Great Exhibition (1851 : London, England); Industries--Great
Britain--History--19th century; English literature--19th
century--History and criticism; Industries in literature; Great
Britain--Civilization--19th century; Great
Britain--History--Victoria, 1837-1901.
Francesco Bogliari, Sergio Di Giorgi, Marco
Lombardi and Piero Trupia (2007). Cinema Per Manager.
(Milan, IT: EtasLab, 256 p.). 50 high-quality films offer
lessons about human behavior; teach good business practices,
management techniques (problem-solving, teamwork): A tempo
pieno; Americani; L’apparenza inganna; Assassinio sull’Orient
Express; Babel; Bianca; The Big Kahuna; Cacciatore di teste;
Confidenze troppo intime; Il deserto dei tartari; Effetto notte;
L’eredità; Eva contro Eva; La febbre; Fitzcarraldo; Gerry; Good
night, and good luck; Il grande capo; Grazie signora Thatcher;
La guerra dei Roses; Hotel paura; Le invasioni barbariche;
Jarhead; Lolita; Lost in La Mancha; The Manchurian candidate;
Matchpoint; Le mele di Adamo; Miracolo a Milano; La mosca;
Neverland; L’orchestra di piazza Vittorio; Paris, Texas; Le
passeggiate al campo di Marte; Pensavo fosse amore e invece…;
Primavera, estate, autunno, inverno… e ancora primavera;
Profondo rosso; Radio America; Le ricamatrici; Sentieri
selvaggi; Shining; Il sole negli occhi; La spettatrice; La
stella che non c’è; The terminal; Time; Tredici variazioni sul
tema; Il Vangelo secondo Matteo; Volver.
Robert A. Brawer (1998).
Fictions of Business: Insights on Management from Great
Literature. (New York, NY: Wiley, 248 p.). Former CEO of
a global corporation who has also been an English literature
professor. American literature -- History and criticism; English
literature -- History and criticism; Businessmen in literature;
Management science in literature; Business ethics in literature;
Business in literature.
Robert Robert Coles, Albert LaFarge (2008).
Minding the Store: Great Writing About Business, from Tolstoy to
Now. (New York, NY: New Press, 303 p.). Former James
Agee Professor of Social Ethics (Harvard University); Former
Deputy Editor of DoubleTake magazine. Business -- Fiction; Short
stories, American; Short stories.
Collection of classic literary reflections on ethical, spiritual
predicaments of business world.
William Conlogue (2001).
Working the Garden: American Writers and the Industrialization
of Agriculture. (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North
Carolina Press, 230 p.). Assistant Professor of English
(Marywood University). American literature--20th
century--History and criticism; Agriculture in literature;
Agriculture--Economic aspects--United States--History--20th
century; Pastoral literature, American--History and criticism;
Industrialization in literature; Rural conditions in literature;
Farm life in literature; Gardens in literature.
Tim Dolin (1997).
Mistress of the House: Women of Property in the Victorian Novel.
(Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 153 p.). English fiction--19th
century--History and criticism; Domestic fiction,
English--History and criticism; Literature and
society--England--History--19th century; Women and
literature--England--History--19th century; Domestic relations
in literature; Economics in literature; Property in literature;
Sex role in literature; Marriage in literature; Women in
literature.
Henry W. Farnham (1978). Shakespeare's
Economics. (Philadelphia, PA: R. West, 187 p. (orig. pub.
1931)). Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Knowledge--Economics;
Economics in literature; England--Economic conditions--16th
century.
Lorne Fienberg (1988). A Cuckoo in the Nest
of Culture: Changing Perspectives on the Businessman in the
American Novel, 1865-1914. (New York, NY: Garland, 384 p.).
American fiction--19th century--History and criticism; Business
in literature; Businessmen in literature; American fiction--20th
century--History and criticism.
Margot C. Finn (2003).
The Character of Credit: Personal Debt in English Culture,
1740-1914. (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press,
362 p.). English prose literature--History and criticism;
Economics and literature--Great Britain--History; Consumption
(Economics)--Great Britain--History; Finance, Personal--Great
Britain--History; Consumption (Economics) in literature;
Credit--Great Britain--History; Debt--Great Britain--History;
Economics in literature; Debt in literature; Great
Britain--Economic conditions.
Charlotte Georgi (1959). The Businessman in
the Novel. (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina
Library, 36 p.). Businessmen in literature--Bibliography;
American fiction--20th century--Bibliography.
John Guillory (1993).
Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation.
(Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 392 p.). Silver
Professor of English (NYU). English literature --History and
criticism --Theory, etc.; English literature --Study and
teaching --Case studies; Capitalism and literature; Literature
and society; Canon (Literature). Canon formation must be
understood as question of distribution of "cultural capital" in
schools, which regulate access to literacy, to practices of
reading and writing (less as question of representation of
social groups).
George L. Henderson (1999).
California & The Fictions of Capital. (New York, NY:
Oxford University Press, 265 p.). Assistant Professor of
Geography and Regional Development (University of Arizona).
American literature--California--History and criticism; Authors,
American--Homes and haunts--California; Capitalism and
literature--California; Capital--California--History;
California--Historical geography; California--Economic
conditions; California--In literature. Pastoral
novels set in California (Frank Norris, Jack London, Mary
Austin, others) set out to unearth contradictions of rural
capitalism but ended up smoothing over its dislocations;
geography, economic theory - circulation of capital through
agriculture best way to understand rise of modern industrial
countryside in California
Carl S. Horner (1992).
The Boy Inside the American Businessman: Corporate Darwinism in
Twentieth-Century American Literature. (Lanham, MD:
University Press of America, 103 p.). American literature--20th
century--History and criticism; Businessmen in literature;
Business in literature; Boys in literature; Men in literature.
Social Darwinism.
Blair Hoxby (2002).
Mammon's Music: Literature and Economics in the Age of Milton.
(New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 320 p.). Milton, John,
1608-1674 --Knowledge--Economics; Economics and
literature--Great Britain--History--17th century; Economics in
literature; Commerce in literature.
Kathryn Hume (2000).
American Dream, American Nightmare: Fiction Since 1960.
(Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press. American
fiction--20th century--History and criticism; Failure
(Psychology) in literature; Literature and society--United
States--History--20th century; Psychological fiction,
American--History and criticism; National characteristics,
American, in literature; Loss (Psychology) in literature;
Disappointment in literature; Economics in literature; Success
in literature.
Compiled by Humphrey Jennings (1985).
Pandaemonium: The Coming of the Machine as Seen by Contemporary
Observers, 1660-1886. (New York, NY: Free Press, 376
p.). English literature; Industries--Literary collections;
Machinery in the workplace--Literary collections;
Industrialization--Literary collections; Social
conflict--Literary collections; Social history--Literary
collections; Great Britain--Literary collections.
Alissa G. Karl (2009).
Modernism and the Marketplace: Literary Culture and Consumer
Capitalism in Rhys, Woolf, Stein, and Nella Larsen.
(New York, NY: Routledge, 183 p.). Assistant Professor of
English (State University of New York, Brockport). Rhys, Jean
--Criticism and interpretation; Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941
--Criticism and interpretation; Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946
--Criticism and interpretation; Larsen, Nella --Criticism and
interpretation; Modernism (Literature); English literature
--Women authors --History and criticism; American literature
--Women authors --History and criticism; Capitalism in
literature; Imperialism in literature; Race in literature.
Practical, conceptual interfaces between literary practice, dominant economic institutions and ideas.
David Kaufmann (1995).
The Business of Common Life: Novels and Classical Economics
between Revolution and Reform. (Baltimore, MD: Johns
Hopkins University Press, 196 p.). English fiction--19th
century--History and criticism; English fiction--18th
century--History and criticism; Literature and society--Great
Britain--History; Economics in literature; Business in
literature.
Theodore B. Leinwand (1999).
Theatre, Finance, and Society in Early Modern England.
(Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press: 199 p. English
drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and
criticism; Economics in literature; Literature and
society--England--History--16th century; Literature and
society--England--History--17th century; English drama--17th
century--History and criticism; Finance--England--History--16th
century--Sources; Finance--England--History--17th
century--Sources; Finance in literature.
Samuel L. Macey (1983).
Money and the Novel: Mercenary Motivation in Defoe and His
Immediate Successors. (Vancouver, B.C.: Sono Nis Press,
184 p.). Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 --Knowledge--Economics;
Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761 --Knowledge--Economics; Fielding,
Henry, 1707-1754 --Knowledge--Economics; Austen, Jane, 1775-1817
--Knowledge--Economics; English fiction--History and criticism;
Money in literature; Economics in literature;
Economics--England--History--18th century.
Sara
Malton (2009).
Forgery in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture: Fictions
of Finance from Dickens to Wilde. (New York, NY:
Palgrave Macmillan, 200 p. ).
Assistant Professor of English (Saint Mary’s University). Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
--Criticism and interpretation; Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900
--Criticism and interpretation; English literature --19th
century --History and criticism; Finance in literature; Forgery
in literature; Forgery --England --History --19th century;
Criminals in literature. How social, legal contexts inform
shifting representation of crime, its varied perpetrators
throughout 19th century.
Laura Mandell (1999).
Misogynous Economies: The Business of Literature in
Eighteenth-Century Britain. (Lexington, KY: University
of Kentucky Press, 228 p.). English literature--18th
century--History and criticism; Misogyny in literature;
Capitalism and literature--Great Britain--History--18th century;
Women and literature--Great Britain--History--18th century;
English literature--Women authors--History and criticism;
Capitalists and financiers in literature; Economics in
literature; Ethics in literature; Women in literature; Rape in
literature.
Michael J. McTague (1979).
The Businessman in Literature: Dante to Melville. (New
York, NY: Philosophical Library, 86 p.). Businessmen in
literature.
John McVeagh (1981).
Tradefull Merchants: The Portrayal of the Capitalist in
Literature. (London, UK: Routledge & Kega Paul, 221 p.).
English literature--History and criticism; Capitalists and
financiers in literature; Capitalism and literature--Great
Britain; Businessmen in literature; Commerce in literature.
Ranald
C. Michie (2009).
Guilty Money: The City of London in Victorian and Edwardian
Culture, 1815-1914.
(London, UK, Pickering & Chatto, 278 p.). Professor of
History (Durham University). Financial institutions
--England --London --History --19th century; English fiction
--19th century --History and criticism; Capitalists and
financiers in literature; London (England) --In
literature. Novel as work of historical documentation,
pertinent source of socio-economic representation
(socio-cultural study) of place occupied by City of London
within British cultural life during Victorian and Edwardian
periods; two traditional views of the City as a global
financial centre: 1) London as a theatre of corruption,
fraud and scandal; 2) as a place of unbridled success and
power for the ambitious elite.
Timothy Morton (2000).
The Poetics of Spice: Romantic Consumerism and the Exotic.
(New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 282 p.). English
literature--History and criticism; Spice trade in literature;
Capitalism and literature--Great Britain--History; English
literature--Asian influences; Consumption (Economics) in
literature; Romanticism--Great Britain; East and West in
literature; Exoticism in literature; Orient--In literature.
Donald L. Mull (1973).
Henry James's "sublime economy"; Money as Symbolic Center in the
Fiction. (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 195
p.). James, Henry, 1843-1916 --Knowledge--Economics;
Economics--United States--History--19th century; Symbolism in
literature; Economics in literature; Money in literature.
Colin Nicholson (1994).
Writing and the Rise of Finance: Capital Satires of the Early
Eighteenth Century. (New York, NY: Cambridge University
Press, 219 p.). English literature--18th century--History and
criticism; Capitalism and literature--Great
Britain--History--18th century; Finance--Great
Britain--History--18th century; Capitalists and financiers in
literature; Satire, English--History and criticism; Economics in
literature; Finance in literature.
Maximillian E. Novak (1976). Economics and
the Fiction of Daniel Defoe. (New York, NY: Russell &
Russell, 185 p. (orig. pub. 1962)). Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731
--Knowledge--Economics; Economics--England--History--18th
century; Economics in literature.
Lynn A. Parks (1996).
Capitalism in Early American Literature: Texts and Contexts.
(New York, NY: Peter Lang, 183 p.). American
literature--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--History and
criticism; Capitalism and literature--United
States--History--18th century; Capitalism and literature--United
States--History--17th century; Economics in literature; Wealth
in literature; Work in literature.
Lucie Pfaff (1989).
The American and German Entrepreneur: Economic and Literary
Interplay. (New York, NY: P. Lang, 183 p.).
Entrepreneurship -- Government policy -- United States; Small
business -- Government policy -- United States; Entrepreneurship
-- Government policy -- Germany (West); Small business --
Government policy -- Germany (West); national characteristics,
American, in literature; Businessmen in literature.; American
literature; German literature.
Mary Poovey (2008).
Genres of the Credit Economy: Mediating Value in Eighteenth- and
Nineteenth-Century Britain. (Chicago, IL: University of
Chicago Press, 511 p.). Samuel Rudin Professor in the Humanities
and Professor of English (New York University). Finance--Great
Britain--History; Consumer credit--Great Britain--History; Money
in literature; Money--Social aspects--Great Britain; Economics
and literature--Great Britain--History; Literary form--History;
English literature--History and criticism. History of financial instruments,
representations of finance in 18th, 19th Britain; complex
relationships among forms of writing that are not usually viewed
together; mediated for early modern Britons operations of market
system organized around credit, debt.
James Raven (1992).
Judging New Wealth: Popular Publishing and Responses to Commerce
in England, 1750-1800. (New York, NY: Oxford University
Press, 327 p.). Publishers and publishing -- England -- History
-- 18th century; English literature -- 18th century -- History
and criticism; Wealth -- England -- Public opinion -- History --
18th century; Literature publishing -- England -- History --
18th century; Popular literature -- England -- History and
criticism; Businessmen in literature; Commerce in literature;
Wealth in literature; England -- Commerce -- Public opinion --
History -- 18th century; Popular culture -- England -- History
-- 18th century.
Janet A. Rich (1987). The Dream of Riches
and the Dream of Art: The Relationship Between Business and the
Imagination in the Life and Major Fiction of Mark Twain.
(New York, NY: Garland, 312 p.). Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
--Knowledge--Commerce; Capitalism and literature--United
States--History; Economics in literature; Commerce in
literature; Business in literature; Money in literature; United
States--Commerce--History--19th century.
Norman Russell (1986).
The Novelist and Mammon: Literary Responses to the World of
Commerce in the Nineteenth Century. (New York, NY:
Oxford University Press, 226 p.). English fiction--19th
century--History and criticism; Commerce in literature; Business
in literature; Economics in literature; Capitalists and
financiers in literature; Businessmen in literature.
Marc Shell (1978).
The Economy of Literature. (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 176 p.). Economics in literature; Money.
--- (1993).
Money, Language, and Thought: Literary and Philosophic Economies
from the Medieval to the Modern Era. (Baltimore, MD:
Johns Hopkins University Press, 245 p. (orig. pub. 1982)).
Economics in literature; Language and languages--Philosophy;
Money--Philosophy.
Sandra Sherman (1996).
Finance and Fictionality in the Early Eighteenth Century:
Accounting for Defoe. (New York, NY: Cambridge
University Press, 222 p.). Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731
--Knowledge--Economics; Economics--England--History--18th
century; Finance--England--History--18th century; Economics in
literature; Finance in literature; Fiction--Technique.
Gillian Skinner (1999).
Sensibility and Economics in the Novel, 1740-1800: The Price of
a Tear. (New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 232 p.).
English fiction--18th century--History and criticism;
Sentimentalism in literature; Economics in literature; Emotions
in literature.
William Solomon (2002).
Literature, Amusement, and Technology in the Great Depression.
(New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 271 p.). Assistant
Professor in the Departments of English and American Studies
(Stanford University). American fiction--20th century--History
and criticism; Depressions in literature; Literature and
technology--United States--History--20th century; Popular
culture--United States--History--20th century;
Depressions--1929--United States; Popular culture in literature;
Amusements in literature; Technology in literature; Carnival in
literature; Play in literature.
Laura Caroline Stevenson (1984).
Praise and Paradox: Merchants and Craftsmen in Elizabethan
Popular Literature. (New York, NY: Cambridge University
Press, 252 p.). Popular literature -- Great Britain -- History
and criticism; English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 --
History and criticism; English literature -- Early modern,
1500-1700 -- Social aspects; Businessmen in literature; Artisans
in literature; Merchants -- Great Britain; Artisans -- Great
Britain.
Ed. Mike Tronnes (1998).
Closers: Great American Writers on the Art of Selling.
(New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 348 p.). Sales personnel --
Literary collections; Selling -- Literary collections; American
literature -- 20th century.
Frederick Turner (1999).
Shakespeare's Twenty-First Century Economics: The Morality of
Love and Money. (New York, NY: Oxford University Press,
223 p.). Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Knowledge--Economics;
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Ethics; Economics and
literature--England--History--16th century; Economics and
literature--England--History--17th century; Didactic drama,
English--History and criticism; Economics--Moral and ethical
aspects; Economics in literature; Ethics in literature; Money in
literature.
Cedric Watts (1990). Literature and Money:
Financial Myth and Literary Truth. (New York, NY: Harvester
Wheatsheaf, 217 p.). English literature--History and criticism;
Capitalists and financiers in literature; Economics in
literature; Money in literature; Myth in literature.
Emily S. Watts (1982).
The Businessman in American Literature. (Athens, GA:
University of Georgia Press, 183 p.). American
literature--History and criticism; Businessmen in literature;
Capitalism in literature.
Barbara Weiss (1986).
The Hell of the English: Bankruptcy and the Victorian Novel.
(Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 208 p.). English
fiction--19th century--History and criticism; Bankruptcy in
literature; Didactic fiction, English--History and criticism;
Capitalists and financiers in literature; Middle class in
literature; Economics in literature; Ethics in literature; Debt
in literature.
Eric Wertheimer (2006).
Underwriting: The Poetics of Insurance in America, 1722-1872.
(Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 187 p.). Associate
Professor of American Literature (Arizona State University).
American literature--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--History and
criticism; Insurance and literature--United
States--History--18th century; Insurance and literature--United
States--History--19th century; American
literature--Revolutionary period, 1775-1783--History and
criticism; American literature--19th century--History and
criticism; Value in literature; Values in literature.
Cultural history of insurance in
early America; insurance, as textual procedure, requires
signatures to conserve property, is a writing business.
Wayne W. Westbrook (1980).
Wall Street in the American Novel. (New York, NY: New
York University Press, 213 p.). American fiction--History and
criticism; Wall Street in literature; Finance in literature.
Scott Wilson (1995).
Cultural Materialism: Theory and Practice. (Cambridge,
MA: Blackwell, 278 p.). Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
--Political and social views; Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900
--Political and social views; English literature--Early modern,
1500-1700--History and criticism--Theory, etc.; Politics and
literature--Great Britain--History--16th century; Literature and
anthropology--Great Britain; Social change in literature;
Materialism in literature; Economics in literature; Marxist
criticism; Historicism.
David A. Zimmerman (2006).
Panic!: Markets, Crises, and Crowds in American Fiction.
(Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 312 p.).
Assistant Professor of English (University of Wisconsin,
Madison). American fiction--19th century--History and criticism;
Financial crises in literature; American fiction--20th
century--History and criticism; Depressions in literature;
Popular culture--United States--History; Literature and
society--United States--History; Financial crises--United
States--History. Relation between fiction and financial
modernity. How American
novelists and their readers imagined market crashes and
financial panics.
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