Corporate Culture
National and Transnational Corporations in Seventeenth-Century Literature
Seiten
2018
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-69324-1 (ISBN)
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-69324-1 (ISBN)
This book demonstrates how the ideas and ideals of the corporation, such as trust, exchange, and the common good, circulated in early modern society. Literary texts engaged with these ideas to develop new forms of national identity, social politics, and religious expression modelled on the idea of the corporate collective.
The corporation – an immortal collective bound to act for the common good – was developed in the seventeenth century, but comparatively little attention has been paid to its literary ramifications. This work combines corporate history with literary analysis to demonstrate how corporations, and the literature they engendered, shaped ideas of the public sphere, trust, the morality of trade and exchange, national identity, and salvation.
Drawing on a wide range of genres – including corporate publications, letters, and minute books; dramatic works; epic poetry and sermons – this study shows how widely corporate rhetoric spread, and how embedded it was in the early modern social imagination.
The corporation – an immortal collective bound to act for the common good – was developed in the seventeenth century, but comparatively little attention has been paid to its literary ramifications. This work combines corporate history with literary analysis to demonstrate how corporations, and the literature they engendered, shaped ideas of the public sphere, trust, the morality of trade and exchange, national identity, and salvation.
Drawing on a wide range of genres – including corporate publications, letters, and minute books; dramatic works; epic poetry and sermons – this study shows how widely corporate rhetoric spread, and how embedded it was in the early modern social imagination.
Liam D. Haydon is a postdoctoral fellow in the Centre for the Political Economies of International Commerce at the University of Kent.
Introduction 1. The Corporate Public Sphere 2. Trusting the Corporation 3. The World’s Exchange 4. Epic, Nationalism, and the Corporation 5. The Corporation of Heaven. Coda
Erscheinungsdatum | 15.11.2017 |
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Reihe/Serie | Routledge Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Worlds of Knowledge |
Zusatzinfo | 1 Line drawings, black and white; 1 Illustrations, black and white |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 412 g |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 1-138-69324-3 / 1138693243 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-138-69324-1 / 9781138693241 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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