Culture, Capital and Representation

✍ Scribed by Robert J. Balfour

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 238
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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).

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
List of Illustrations......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 12
List of Contributors......Page 13
Introduction: Culture, Capital and Representation......Page 16
1 Colonialism, Displacement and Cannibalism in Early Modern Economic Thought......Page 31
2 Accounting Capital, Race and Benjamin Franklin's 'Pecuniary Habits' of Mind in The Autobiography......Page 50
3 A System Illusory and Immoral: Jonathan Swift and the Emergence of the Modern Economic Polity......Page 64
4 Payments of Attention: Epitaphic Cash Flow in Gray and Wordsworth......Page 82
5 Money, Manhood and Suffrage in Our Mutual Friend......Page 98
6 Feverish Speculation: the Railway Across the Isthmus of Panama......Page 115
7 Reading Finance Capital......Page 131
8 The Gold Standard and Literature: Money and Language in the Work of Jean-Joseph Goux......Page 147
9 Producing and Consuming Agricultural Capital: the Aesthetics and Cultural Politics of Grain Elevators at the 1937 Paris International Exposition......Page 163
10 Finance and Film: Wall Street Myth and Mythopoeia......Page 184
11 Conclusion: Re-presenting Capital in Culture: the Necessary Persistence of Memory in a New Century......Page 199
Bibliography......Page 217
Index......Page 233