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). INDICE: List of Illustrations - Acknowledgements - Notes on Contributors -Introduction: Capital, Culture and Representation; R.Balfour - Colonialism, Displacement and Cannibalism in Early Modern Economic Thought; H.Goodacre - Accounting Capital, Race, and Benjamin Franklin's 'Pecuniary Habits' of Mind in The Autobiography; R.Rosha - A System Illusory and Immoral: Jonathan Swift and the Emergence of the Modern Economic Polity ; C.J.Fauske - Payments of Attention: Epitaphic Cash Flow in Gray and Wordsworth ; G.Fogarasi - Money, Manhood and Suffrage in Our Mutual Friend; R.Livesey - Feverish Speculation: The Railway Across the Isthmus of Panama ; M.Aguiar - Reading Finance Capital; L.C.La Berge - The Gold Standard and Literature: Money and Language in the Work of Jean-Joseph Goux ; B.Roberts - Producing and Consuming Agricultural Capital: The Aesthetics and Cultural Politics of Grain Elevators at the 1937 Paris International Exposition ; G.Evrard - Finance and Film: Wall Street Myth and Mythopoeia; E.G.McGoun - Re-presenting Capital in Culture: The Necessary Persistence ofMemory in a New Century ; R.Balfour - Select Bibliography - Index
- ISBN: 978-0-230-24645-4
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 240
- Fecha Publicación: 17/09/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés