1st Edition
Corporate Culture National and Transnational Corporations in Seventeenth-Century Literature
By Liam D. Haydon
Copyright 2019
204 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
204 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
204 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
Liam D. Haydon is a postdoctoral fellow in the Centre for the Political Economies of International Commerce at the University of Kent.
