{"product_id":"literature-incorporated-john-obrien-9780226291123","title":"Literature Incorporated: The Cultural Unconscious of the Business Corporation, 1650-1850","description":"Long before \u003ci\u003eCitizens United\u003c\/i\u003e and modern debates over corporations as people, such organizations already stood between the public and private as both vehicles for commerce and imaginative constructs based on groups of individuals. In this book, John O'Brien explores how this relationship played out in economics and literature, two fields that gained prominence in the same era. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Examining British and American essays, poems, novels, and stories from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, O'Brien pursues the idea of incorporation as a trope discernible in a wide range of texts. Key authors include John Locke, Eliza Haywood, Harriet Martineau, and Edgar Allan Poe, and each chapter is oriented around a type of corporation reflected in their works, such as insurance companies or banks. In exploring issues such as whether sentimental interest is the same as economic interest, these works bear witness to capitalism's effect on history and human labor, desire, and memory. This period's imaginative writing, O'Brien argues, is where the \u003ci\u003eunconscious \u003c\/i\u003eof that process left its mark. By revealing the intricate ties between literary models and economic concepts, \u003ci\u003eLiterature Incorporated\u003c\/i\u003e shows us how the business corporation has shaped our understanding of our social world and ourselves. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John O'Brien\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 022629112X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226291123\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/29\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.00d","brand":"John O'Brien","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086400663807,"sku":"9780226291123","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_cb24479b-6e7a-44df-995a-89c22e3f9aea.jpg?v=1769094466","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/literature-incorporated-john-obrien-9780226291123","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}