Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Many and the One: Corporate Bodies and the Body Politic in US Law and Culture; Chapter One: Narrating Monopoly and Empire: Austin, Irving and the Charles River Bridge Case; Chapter Two: The Soulless Corporation: Cooper and the Decline of the Republic; Chapter Three: Satanic Corporate Agents in the Marketplace: Hawthorne, Melville, De Forest and the Uses of Allegory; Chapter Four: Incorporating the Nation: Ruiz de Burton and ‘Quasi Public’ Corporations; Chapter Five: The End of Individualism: Tarbell, Norris and the Power of Combinations; Conclusion: Frankenstein in a Gray Flannel Suit; Bibliography; Index.