Culture, Capital and Representation

✍ Scribed by Robert J. Balfour (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 237
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction: Culture, Capital and Representation....Pages 1-15
Colonialism, Displacement and Cannibalism in Early Modern Economic Thought....Pages 16-34
Accounting Capital, Race and Benjamin Franklin’s ‘Pecuniary Habits’ of Mind in The Autobiography....Pages 35-48
A System Illusory and Immoral: Jonathan Swift and the Emergence of the Modern Economic Polity....Pages 49-66
Payments of Attention: Epitaphic Cash Flow in Gray and Wordsworth....Pages 67-82
Money, Manhood and Suffrage in Our Mutual Friend....Pages 83-99
Feverish Speculation: the Railway Across the Isthmus of Panama....Pages 100-115
Reading Finance Capital....Pages 116-131
The Gold Standard and Literature: Money and Language in the Work of Jean-Joseph Goux....Pages 132-147
Producing and Consuming Agricultural Capital: the Aesthetics and Cultural Politics of Grain Elevators at the 1937 Paris International Exposition....Pages 148-168
Finance and Film: Wall Street Myth and Mythopoeia....Pages 169-183
Conclusion: Re-presenting Capital in Culture: the Necessary Persistence of Memory in a New Century....Pages 184-201
Back Matter....Pages 202-223

✦ Subjects

Literary Theory; Cultural Theory; Twentieth-Century Literature; Sociology, general; British and Irish Literature; North American Literature