Tradefull Merchants

The Portrayal of the Capitalist in Literature

John McVeagh (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

236 Seiten

2025
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-041-15177-7 (ISBN)

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Tradefull Merchants (1981) surveys the range of English literature from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries and explores the successive new lights in which the commercial character has been depicted in poetry, drama and fiction, and thus in society at large. As capitalism began to develop into the dominant organisation of social life during and after the sixteenth century in England, literature reflected and commented on the profound change in society’s attitudes to trade and trading men. Through this survey of literature’s attitudes to capitalism the author highlights the close relationship between imaginative writing and the material and social life of the country.

1. The Origins of the Capitalist Portrayal 1500–1650 2. Commerce Approved 1650–1700 3. The Merchant as Hero 1700–1750 4. Disillusionment 1750–1790 5. The Response to Industrialism 1790–1830 6. From Industrialism to Big Business 1830–1900 7. Waste Land to Welfare State 1900–1980

Erscheinungsdatum	31.10.2025
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Library Editions: Economics and Society
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	600 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
ISBN-10	1-041-15177-2 / 1041151772
ISBN-13	978-1-041-15177-7 / 9781041151777
Zustand	Neuware