Автор: Desai Guarav Название: Commerce with the Universe ISBN: 0231164556 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780231164559 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 4435.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Gaurav Desai builds a new history of Africa`s encounter with slavery, colonialism, migration, nationalism, development, and globalization.
In recent years the analysis of the intersection of literature and economics has generated a vibrant conversation in literary and cultural studies of the Victorian period. But Aeron Hunt argues that an emphasis on abstraction and impersonality as the crucial features of the Victorian economic experience has led to a partial and ultimately misleading vision of Victorian business culture. In contrast, she asserts that the key to understanding the relationship of literary writing to economic experience is what she calls "personal business"--the social and interpersonal relationships of Victorian commercial life in which character was a central mediating concept.
Juxtaposing novels by Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Margaret Oliphant with such nonfiction works as popular biographies, periodicals, and business handbooks, the author builds on and extends the insights of the "new economic criticism" by highlighting the embodied, interpersonal, and socially embedded interactions of everyday economic life.
Hunt analyzes the productive and disciplinary roles that character played in the Victorian economy and traces the proliferation of different models of character as literary writing and commercial discourse responded to the challenges and opportunities presented by personal business. She suggests that the dynamic interchange between forms of character employed in the everyday practice of business and those imagined in literary writing helped shape character as a crucial mode of power in Victorian business culture and economic life. Ultimately, Personal Business provides new ways to understand both the history of the Victorian novel and its implications in middle-class culture and the turbulent experience of nineteenth-century capitalism.
Автор: Francis Название: Culture and Commerce in Conrad`s Asian Fiction ISBN: 1107093988 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107093980 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 15048.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Andrew Francis`s Culture and Commerce in Conrad`s Asian Fiction is the first book-length study of commerce in Conrad`s work. It reveals not only the complex connections between culture and commerce in Conrad`s Asian fiction but also how he employed commerce in characterization, moral contexts, and his depiction of relations at a point of advanced European imperialism.
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