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Literature and Capital (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781350064638)
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xWhat 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.
Author: Thomas Docherty
ISBN-10: 1350064637
ISBN-13: 9781350064638
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 09/06/2018
Pages: 280
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.70d
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.
Author: Thomas Docherty
ISBN-10: 1350064637
ISBN-13: 9781350064638
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 09/06/2018
Pages: 280
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.70d
By Thomas Docherty
xThomas Docherty is Professor of English at the University of Warwick, UK. He has published on most areas of English and comparative literature from the Renaissance to the present day. His previous books include After Theory (1996), The English Question (2008) and For the University (Bloomsbury, 2011).
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