The Representation of Business in English Literature
In The Representation of Business in English Literature, five scholars of different periods of English literature produce original essays on how business and businesspeople have been portrayed by novelists, starting in the eighteenth century and continuing to the end of the twentieth century. The contributors to Representation help readers understand the partiality of the various writers and, in so doing, explore the issue of what determines public opinion about business.
The Representation of Business in English Literature, edited and with an Introduction by Arthur Pollard. Foreword by John Blundell (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2009).
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Copyright 2009 by the Institute of Economic Affairs. Reprinted and online by permission.
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- Foreword: John Blundell
- Editor: Arthur Pollard
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Table of Contents
- Contents
- Note on the Liberty Fund Edition
- Foreword john blundell
- The Authors
- The Representation of Business in English Literature
- Introduction ARTHUR POLLARD University of Hull
- Eighteenth-Century Attitudes Towards Business W. A. SPECK University of Leeds
- REACTIONS TO THE NEW FISCAL-MILITARY STATE
- CIVIC HUMANISM
- DEBATE ON LUXURY: STANDARDS AND QUALITY
- THE FINANCIAL REVOLUTION—BRIBERY AND CORRUPTION
- DEFOE CHAMPIONS COMMERCE
- A GENTRY OF WAR PROFITEERS?
- WEALTH AND GREATNESS THE CAUSE OF CORRUPTION
- LITERARY CONDEMNATION OF THE SLAVE TRADE
- Early Nineteenth Century: Birmingham—“Something Direful in the Sound” GEOFFREY CARNALL University of Edinburgh
- INTRODUCTION
- WALTER SCOTT’S NOSTALGIA FOR THE OLD ORDER
- WORDSWORTH’S DENIGRATION OF INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT
- BLAKE’S REVOLT AGAINST ECONOMIC EXPANSION
- JANE AUSTEN’S APPROACH TO COMMERCE
- SOUTHEY: ROBERT OWEN AND THE “INVISIBILITY” OF BUSINESS IN EARLY-NINETEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE
- EDMUND BURKE: TRADESMEN SHOULD NOT RULE THE STATE
- CHARLES LAMB: HIS ARCHETYPAL TRADESMAN JUKE JUDKINS
- WALTER SCOTT: THE QUAKER ENTREPRENEUR—A DEDICATED “IMPROVER”—AND THE DECLINE OF THE “OLD ORDER”
- TRADESMEN AND MEN OF COMMERCE: ARITHMETIC THEIR COMMON CURRENCY
- JOHN GALT’S MR. CAYENNE—ENTREPRENEUR AND BENEFACTOR
- KEATS AND HAZLITT: MERCHANTS/BUSINESSMEN CONDEMNED—“ETHICALLY AMBIGUOUS . . . INTELLECTUALLY AND EMOTIONALLY STUNTING”
- The High Victorian Period (1850-1900): “The Worship of Mammon” ANGUS EASSON University of Salford
- INTRODUCTION
- Nineteenth-Century Financial Institutions: Buildings and Appearance
- Manchester—A “Shock” City
- ENGLISH LITERATURE AND THE AGE OF BUSINESS
- Dickens’s Little Dorrit: English Social Hierarchy and Business
- SOCIAL DISTINCTIONS AMONG THE PROFESSIONS
- Questions of Status and Class
- Merdle and Melmotte: Dickens’s and Trollope’s “Financiers”
- MONEY, RACE, CLASS AND MORALITY
- “Captains of Industry”: The Modern Heroes
- SOCIAL CLIMBING, MONEY, COMMERCE AND TRADE
- H. G. Wells on Class in English Society
- Wells’s Analysis of the History and Class System of England
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Primary
- Secondary
- The Early Twentieth Century: Uniformity, Drudgery and Economics ALLAN SIMMONS St. Mary’s University College
- INTRODUCTION
- SURVEY OF THE LITERATURE OF THE AGE
- Shaw
- Bennett
- Wells
- BUSINESS AND TRADE IN HARDY, LAWRENCE, AND CONRAD
- Hardy
- Lawrence
- Conrad
- Mid-Late Twentieth Century: “An Unprecedented Moral Quagmire” JOHN MORRIS Brunel University
- 1.: THE SCENE IN THE 1930S
- Images of Cultural Debasement
- Stream of Consciousness
- Business and Industry—Class Divisions
- 2.: THE POST-WAR ERA: THE BUSINESS OF DEATH AND ITS AFTERMATH
- War and Business
- The American Connection
- The Technology of Control Systems
- The Angry Young Men—a World of Absurdity
- 3.: THE SIXTIES AND BEYOND
- The Role of Money: The “Mad” Christie Malry
- The Attack on Thatcherism
- The “Money-Conspiracy”
- The Obscenity of “Serious Money”
- HACKWELL
- 4.: FINAL THOUGHTS
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