Beschreibung:
In "The Representation of Business in English Literature," five scholars of different periods of English literature produce original essays on how business and businesspeople have been portrayed by novelists, starting in the eighteenth century and continuing to the end of the twentieth century. The contributors to "Representation" help readers understand the partiality of the various writers and, in so doing, explore the issue of what determines public opinion about business. Arthur Pollard (1922-2001) was Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Hull in Hull, East Yorkshire, England. John Blundell is General Director of the Institute of Economic Affairs, London.
Note on the Liberty Fund Edition; Foreword; The Authors; Introduction; Eighteenth-Century Attitudes Towards Business; Early Nineteenth Century: Birmingham -- "Something Direful in the Sound"; The High Victorian Period (1850-1900); The Worship of Mammon; The Early Twentieth Century: Uniformity, Drudgery and Economics; Mid-Late Twentieth Century: An Unprecedented Moral Quagmire; Index.