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Culture, Capital and Representation

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Editors:
  1. Robert J. Balfour

    1. University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
      St Augustine College, Catholic University of South Africa, South Africa

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction: Culture, Capital and Representation

    • Robert J. Balfour
    Pages 1-15

  3. Colonialism, Displacement and Cannibalism in Early Modern Economic Thought

    • Hugh Goodacre
    Pages 16-34

  4. Accounting Capital, Race and Benjamin Franklin’s ‘Pecuniary Habits’ of Mind in The Autobiography

    • Rekha Rosha
    Pages 35-48

  5. A System Illusory and Immoral: Jonathan Swift and the Emergence of the Modern Economic Polity

    • Christopher J. Fauske
    Pages 49-66

  6. Payments of Attention: Epitaphic Cash Flow in Gray and Wordsworth

    • György Fogarasi
    Pages 67-82

  7. Money, Manhood and Suffrage in Our Mutual Friend

    • Ruth Livesey
    Pages 83-99

  8. Feverish Speculation: the Railway Across the Isthmus of Panama

    • Marian Aguiar
    Pages 100-115

  9. Reading Finance Capital

    • Leigh Claire La Berge
    Pages 116-131

  10. The Gold Standard and Literature: Money and Language in the Work of Jean-Joseph Goux

    • Ben Roberts
    Pages 132-147

  11. Producing and Consuming Agricultural Capital: the Aesthetics and Cultural Politics of Grain Elevators at the 1937 Paris International Exposition

    • Guillaume Evrard
    Pages 148-168

  12. Finance and Film: Wall Street Myth and Mythopoeia

    • Elton G. McGoun
    Pages 169-183

  13. Conclusion: Re-presenting Capital in Culture: the Necessary Persistence of Memory in a New Century

    • Robert J. Balfour
    Pages 184-201

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 202-223
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With contributions ranging over three centuries, Culture, Capital and Representation explores how literature, cultural studies and the visual arts represent, interact with, and produce ideas about capital, whether in its early phases (the growth of stock markets) or in its late phase (global speculative capital).

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

    Robert J. Balfour

  • St Augustine College, Catholic University of South Africa, South Africa

    Robert J. Balfour

About the editor

MARIAN AGUIAR Carnegie Mellon, USA ROBERT BALFOUR Registrar, St Augustine College, Catholic University of South Africa, South Africa GUILLAUME EVRARD Tutor in Art History, University of Edinburgh, UK CHRIS FAUSKE Associate Professor of Communications, Salem State College, USA GYORGY FOGARASI Associate Professor of Comparative Literature University of Szeged, Hungary HUGH GOODACRE Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of Westminster, UK LEIGH CLAIRE LA BERGE Collegiate Assistant Professor of Humanities, University of Chicago, USA RUTH LIVESEY Reader in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Thought, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK ELTON MCGOUN William H. Dunkak Professor of Finance, Bucknell University, USA BEN ROBERTS Lecturer in Media Studies, University of Bradford, UK REKHA ROSAH Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Wake Forest University, USA

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