Culture, Capital and Representation

By Stanley Johnson

Book Overview

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 of Memory in a New Century; R.Balfour Select Bibliography Index

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349319554
• ISBN13: 9781349319558
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 223 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"