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1 online resource (268 pages) |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"What is the value of literature? In this important new work, Thomas Docherty charts a new economic history of literary culture and its institutions in the modern age. From the literary patronage of the early modern period, through the colonial exploitation of the 18th and 19th centuries to the institutionalisation of "literature" in the neoliberal university of the 21st century, Literature and Capital explores the changing ways in which literary culture has both resisted and become complicit with exploitative economic notions of value. Drawing on the work of economic and political thinkers such as Thomas Piketty, Naomi Klein, Edward Said and Raymond Williams, the book includes readings of work by a wide range of canonical authors from Shakespeare, Donne and Swift to Tolstoy, Woolf and Ishiguro"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Literal Capital -- Part One. Land and Letters. Chapter 1: Capital and the Embrace of Letters; Chapter 2: On the Credibility of Writing: Material Promises; Chapter 3: The Career of English -- Part Two. Culture and Capital. Chapter 4: Governing the Tongue; Chapter 5: Inequality, Management and the Hatred of Literature; Chapter 6: Cultural Capital and the Shameful University -- Part Three. Institutional and Human Capital; Chapter 7: The Privatization of all Interests; Chapter 8: Radical Geography. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Economics and literature.
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Economics and literature. |
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Capitalism and literature.
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Capitalism and literature. |
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Culture -- Economic aspects.
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Culture -- Economic aspects. |
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Politics and literature.
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Politics and literature. |
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Education -- Social aspects.
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Education -- Social aspects. |
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Values in literature.
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Privatization.
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Literature and society.
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Values in literature. |
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Literary theory. |
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Privatization. |
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Literary studies: general. |
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Literature and society. |
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Docherty, Thomas, 1955- Literature and capital. London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic/ Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2019 9781350064645 (DLC) 2018002199 |
| ISBN |
9781350064652 (electronic book) |
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1350064653 (electronic book) |
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9781350064669 (electronic book) |
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1350064661 (electronic book) |
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9781350064645 (hardcover) |
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9781350064638 |
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