Corporate Culture: National and Transnational Corporations in Seventeenth-Century Literature

ISBN-13: 9781138693241 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 192 str.

Liam D. Haydon

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Liam D. Haydon is a postdoctoral fellow in the Centre for the Political Economies of International Commerce at the University of Kent.