Business in Literature

Joseph L. Badaracco, Jr. (2006). Questions of Character: Illuminating the Heart of Leadership Through Literature. (Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 221 p.). John Shad Professor of Business Ethics at Harvard Business School. Leadership; Leadership--Moral and ethical aspects. Author outlines eight fundamental challenges that test a leader’s character, proposes exploring them through literature.

Gordon Bigelow (2003). Fiction, Famine, and the Rise of Economics in Victorian Britain and Ireland. (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 229 p.). Assistant Professor of English (Rhodes College). Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865 --Knowledge--Economics; Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 --Knowledge--Economics; Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Bleak House; English fiction--19th century--History and criticism; Economics in literature; Economics--Great Britain--History--19th century; Ireland--History--Famine, 1845-1852--Historiography. 

Joseph Bizup (2003). Manufacturing Culture: Vindications of Early Victorian Industry. (Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 229 p.). Great Exhibition (1851 : London, England); Industries--Great Britain--History--19th century; English literature--19th century--History and criticism; Industries in literature; Great Britain--Civilization--19th century; Great Britain--History--Victoria, 1837-1901. 

Francesco Bogliari, Sergio Di Giorgi, Marco Lombardi and Piero Trupia (2007). Cinema Per Manager. (Milan, IT: EtasLab, 256 p.). 50 high-quality films offer lessons about human behavior; teach good business practices, management techniques (problem-solving, teamwork): A tempo pieno; Americani; L’apparenza inganna; Assassinio sull’Orient Express; Babel; Bianca; The Big Kahuna; Cacciatore di teste; Confidenze troppo intime; Il deserto dei tartari; Effetto notte; L’eredità; Eva contro Eva; La febbre; Fitzcarraldo; Gerry; Good night, and good luck; Il grande capo; Grazie signora Thatcher; La guerra dei Roses; Hotel paura; Le invasioni barbariche; Jarhead; Lolita; Lost in La Mancha; The Manchurian candidate; Matchpoint; Le mele di Adamo; Miracolo a Milano; La mosca; Neverland; L’orchestra di piazza Vittorio; Paris, Texas; Le passeggiate al campo di Marte; Pensavo fosse amore e invece…; Primavera, estate, autunno, inverno… e ancora primavera; Profondo rosso; Radio America; Le ricamatrici; Sentieri selvaggi; Shining; Il sole negli occhi; La spettatrice; La stella che non c’è; The terminal; Time; Tredici variazioni sul tema; Il Vangelo secondo Matteo; Volver.

Robert A. Brawer (1998). Fictions of Business: Insights on Management from Great Literature. (New York, NY: Wiley, 248 p.). Former CEO of a global corporation who has also been an English literature professor. American literature -- History and criticism; English literature -- History and criticism; Businessmen in literature; Management science in literature; Business ethics in literature; Business in literature.

William Conlogue (2001). Working the Garden: American Writers and the Industrialization of Agriculture. (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 230 p.). Assistant Professor of English (Marywood University). American literature--20th century--History and criticism; Agriculture in literature; Agriculture--Economic aspects--United States--History--20th century; Pastoral literature, American--History and criticism; Industrialization in literature; Rural conditions in literature; Farm life in literature; Gardens in literature. 

Tim Dolin (1997). Mistress of the House: Women of Property in the Victorian Novel. (Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 153 p.). English fiction--19th century--History and criticism; Domestic fiction, English--History and criticism; Literature and society--England--History--19th century; Women and literature--England--History--19th century; Domestic relations in literature; Economics in literature; Property in literature; Sex role in literature; Marriage in literature; Women in literature.

Henry W. Farnham (1978). Shakespeare's Economics. (Philadelphia, PA: R. West, 187 p. (orig. pub. 1931)). Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Knowledge--Economics; Economics in literature; England--Economic conditions--16th century.

Lorne Fienberg (1988). A Cuckoo in the Nest of Culture: Changing Perspectives on the Businessman in the American Novel, 1865-1914. (New York, NY: Garland, 384 p.). American fiction--19th century--History and criticism; Business in literature; Businessmen in literature; American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Margot C. Finn (2003). The Character of Credit: Personal Debt in English Culture, 1740-1914. (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 362 p.). English prose literature--History and criticism; Economics and literature--Great Britain--History; Consumption (Economics)--Great Britain--History; Finance, Personal--Great Britain--History; Consumption (Economics) in literature; Credit--Great Britain--History; Debt--Great Britain--History; Economics in literature; Debt in literature; Great Britain--Economic conditions.

Charlotte Georgi (1959). The Businessman in the Novel. (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Library, 36 p.). Businessmen in literature--Bibliography; American fiction--20th century--Bibliography.

George L. Henderson (1999). California & The Fictions of Capital. (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 265 p.). Assistant Professor of Geography and Regional Development (University of Arizona).  American literature--California--History and criticism; Authors, American--Homes and haunts--California; Capitalism and literature--California; Capital--California--History; California--Historical geography; California--Economic conditions; California--In literature. 

Carl S. Horner (1992). The Boy Inside the American Businessman: Corporate Darwinism in Twentieth-Century American Literature. (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 103 p.). American literature--20th century--History and criticism; Businessmen in literature; Business in literature; Boys in literature; Men in literature. Social Darwinism.

Blair Hoxby (2002). Mammon's Music: Literature and Economics in the Age of Milton. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 320 p.). Milton, John, 1608-1674 --Knowledge--Economics; Economics and literature--Great Britain--History--17th century; Economics in literature; Commerce in literature.

Kathryn Hume (2000). American Dream, American Nightmare: Fiction Since 1960. (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press. American fiction--20th century--History and criticism; Failure (Psychology) in literature; Literature and society--United States--History--20th century; Psychological fiction, American--History and criticism; National characteristics, American, in literature; Loss (Psychology) in literature; Disappointment in literature; Economics in literature; Success in literature.

Compiled by Humphrey Jennings (1985). Pandaemonium: The Coming of the Machine as Seen by Contemporary Observers, 1660-1886. (New York, NY: Free Press, 376 p.). English literature; Industries--Literary collections; Machinery in the workplace--Literary collections; Industrialization--Literary collections; Social conflict--Literary collections; Social history--Literary collections; Great Britain--Literary collections.

David Kaufmann (1995). The Business of Common Life: Novels and Classical Economics between Revolution and Reform. (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 196 p.). English fiction--19th century--History and criticism; English fiction--18th century--History and criticism; Literature and society--Great Britain--History; Economics in literature; Business in literature.

Theodore B. Leinwand (1999). Theatre, Finance, and Society in Early Modern England. (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press: 199 p. English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and criticism; Economics in literature; Literature and society--England--History--16th century; Literature and society--England--History--17th century; English drama--17th century--History and criticism; Finance--England--History--16th century--Sources; Finance--England--History--17th century--Sources; Finance in literature.

Samuel L. Macey (1983). Money and the Novel: Mercenary Motivation in Defoe and His Immediate Successors. (Vancouver, B.C.: Sono Nis Press, 184 p.). Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 --Knowledge--Economics; Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761 --Knowledge--Economics; Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754 --Knowledge--Economics; Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 --Knowledge--Economics; English fiction--History and criticism; Money in literature; Economics in literature; Economics--England--History--18th century.

Laura Mandell (1999). Misogynous Economies: The Business of Literature in Eighteenth-Century Britain. (Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 228 p.). English literature--18th century--History and criticism; Misogyny in literature; Capitalism and literature--Great Britain--History--18th century; Women and literature--Great Britain--History--18th century; English literature--Women authors--History and criticism; Capitalists and financiers in literature; Economics in literature; Ethics in literature; Women in literature; Rape in literature.

Michael J. McTague (1979). The Businessman in Literature: Dante to Melville. (New York, NY: Philosophical Library, 86 p.). Businessmen in literature.

John McVeagh (1981). Tradefull Merchants: The Portrayal of the Capitalist in Literature. (London, UK: Routledge & Kega Paul, 221 p.). English literature--History and criticism; Capitalists and financiers in literature; Capitalism and literature--Great Britain; Businessmen in literature; Commerce in literature.

Timothy Morton (2000). The Poetics of Spice: Romantic Consumerism and the Exotic. (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 282 p.). English literature--History and criticism; Spice trade in literature; Capitalism and literature--Great Britain--History; English literature--Asian influences; Consumption (Economics) in literature; Romanticism--Great Britain; East and West in literature; Exoticism in literature; Orient--In literature.

Donald L. Mull (1973). Henry James's "sublime economy"; Money as Symbolic Center in the Fiction. (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 195 p.). James, Henry, 1843-1916 --Knowledge--Economics; Economics--United States--History--19th century; Symbolism in literature; Economics in literature; Money in literature.

Colin Nicholson (1994). Writing and the Rise of Finance: Capital Satires of the Early Eighteenth Century. (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 219 p.). English literature--18th century--History and criticism; Capitalism and literature--Great Britain--History--18th century; Finance--Great Britain--History--18th century; Capitalists and financiers in literature; Satire, English--History and criticism; Economics in literature; Finance in literature.

Maximillian E. Novak (1976). Economics and the Fiction of Daniel Defoe. (New York, NY: Russell & Russell, 185 p. (orig. pub. 1962)). Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 --Knowledge--Economics; Economics--England--History--18th century; Economics in literature.

Lynn A. Parks (1996). Capitalism in Early American Literature: Texts and Contexts. (New York, NY: Peter Lang, 183 p.). American literature--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--History and criticism; Capitalism and literature--United States--History--18th century; Capitalism and literature--United States--History--17th century; Economics in literature; Wealth in literature; Work in literature.

Lucie Pfaff (1989). The American and German Entrepreneur: Economic and Literary Interplay. (New York, NY: P. Lang, 183 p.). Entrepreneurship -- Government policy -- United States; Small business -- Government policy -- United States; Entrepreneurship -- Government policy -- Germany (West); Small business -- Government policy -- Germany (West); national characteristics, American, in literature; Businessmen in literature.; American literature; German literature.

Mary Poovey (2008). Genres of the Credit Economy: Mediating Value in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain. (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 511 p.). Samuel Rudin Professor in the Humanities and Professor of English (New York University). Finance--Great Britain--History; Consumer credit--Great Britain--History; Money in literature; Money--Social aspects--Great Britain; Economics and literature--Great Britain--History; Literary form--History; English literature--History and criticism. History of financial instruments, representations of finance in 18th, 19th Britain; complex relationships among forms of writing that are not usually viewed together; mediated for early modern Britons operations of market system organized around credit, debt.

James Raven (1992). Judging New Wealth: Popular Publishing and Responses to Commerce in England, 1750-1800. (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 327 p.). Publishers and publishing -- England -- History -- 18th century; English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism; Wealth -- England -- Public opinion -- History -- 18th century; Literature publishing -- England -- History -- 18th century; Popular literature -- England -- History and criticism; Businessmen in literature; Commerce in literature; Wealth in literature; England -- Commerce -- Public opinion -- History -- 18th century; Popular culture -- England -- History -- 18th century. 

Janet A. Rich (1987). The Dream of Riches and the Dream of Art: The Relationship Between Business and the Imagination in the Life and Major Fiction of Mark Twain. (New York, NY: Garland, 312 p.). Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 --Knowledge--Commerce; Capitalism and literature--United States--History; Economics in literature; Commerce in literature; Business in literature; Money in literature; United States--Commerce--History--19th century.

Norman Russell (1986). The Novelist and Mammon: Literary Responses to the World of Commerce in the Nineteenth Century. (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 226 p.). English fiction--19th century--History and criticism; Commerce in literature; Business in literature; Economics in literature; Capitalists and financiers in literature; Businessmen in literature.

Marc Shell (1978). The Economy of Literature. (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 176 p.). Economics in literature; Money.

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Sandra Sherman (1996). Finance and Fictionality in the Early Eighteenth Century: Accounting for Defoe. (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 222 p.). Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 --Knowledge--Economics; Economics--England--History--18th century; Finance--England--History--18th century; Economics in literature; Finance in literature; Fiction--Technique.

Gillian Skinner (1999). Sensibility and Economics in the Novel, 1740-1800: The Price of a Tear. (New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 232 p.). English fiction--18th century--History and criticism; Sentimentalism in literature; Economics in literature; Emotions in literature.

William Solomon (2002). Literature, Amusement, and Technology in the Great Depression. (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 271 p.). Assistant Professor in the Departments of English and American Studies (Stanford University). American fiction--20th century--History and criticism; Depressions in literature; Literature and technology--United States--History--20th century; Popular culture--United States--History--20th century; Depressions--1929--United States; Popular culture in literature; Amusements in literature; Technology in literature; Carnival in literature; Play in literature. 

Laura Caroline Stevenson (1984). Praise and Paradox: Merchants and Craftsmen in Elizabethan Popular Literature. (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 252 p.). Popular literature -- Great Britain -- History and criticism; English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism; English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Social aspects; Businessmen in literature; Artisans in literature; Merchants -- Great Britain; Artisans -- Great Britain.

Ed. Mike Tronnes (1998). Closers: Great American Writers on the Art of Selling. (New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 348 p.). Sales personnel -- Literary collections; Selling -- Literary collections; American literature -- 20th century.

Frederick Turner (1999). Shakespeare's Twenty-First Century Economics: The Morality of Love and Money. (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 223 p.). Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Knowledge--Economics; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Ethics; Economics and literature--England--History--16th century; Economics and literature--England--History--17th century; Didactic drama, English--History and criticism; Economics--Moral and ethical aspects; Economics in literature; Ethics in literature; Money in literature.

Cedric Watts (1990). Literature and Money: Financial Myth and Literary Truth. (New York, NY: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 217 p.). English literature--History and criticism; Capitalists and financiers in literature; Economics in literature; Money in literature; Myth in literature.

Emily S. Watts (1982). The Businessman in American Literature. (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 183 p.). American literature--History and criticism; Businessmen in literature; Capitalism in literature.

Barbara Weiss (1986). The Hell of the English: Bankruptcy and the Victorian Novel. (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 208 p.). English fiction--19th century--History and criticism; Bankruptcy in literature; Didactic fiction, English--History and criticism; Capitalists and financiers in literature; Middle class in literature; Economics in literature; Ethics in literature; Debt in literature.

Eric Wertheimer (2006). Underwriting: The Poetics of Insurance in America, 1722-1872. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 187 p.). Associate Professor of American Literature (Arizona State University). American literature--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--History and criticism; Insurance and literature--United States--History--18th century; Insurance and literature--United States--History--19th century; American literature--Revolutionary period, 1775-1783--History and criticism; American literature--19th century--History and criticism; Value in literature; Values in literature. Cultural history of insurance in early America; insurance, as textual procedure, requires signatures to conserve property, is a writing business.

Wayne W. Westbrook (1980). Wall Street in the American Novel. (New York, NY: New York University Press, 213 p.). American fiction--History and criticism; Wall Street in literature; Finance in literature.

Scott Wilson (1995). Cultural Materialism: Theory and Practice. (Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 278 p.). Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Political and social views; Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 --Political and social views; English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism--Theory, etc.; Politics and literature--Great Britain--History--16th century; Literature and anthropology--Great Britain; Social change in literature; Materialism in literature; Economics in literature; Marxist criticism; Historicism.

David A. Zimmerman (2006). Panic!: Markets, Crises, and Crowds in American Fiction. (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 312 p.). Assistant Professor of English (University of Wisconsin, Madison). American fiction--19th century--History and criticism; Financial crises in literature; American fiction--20th century--History and criticism; Depressions in literature; Popular culture--United States--History; Literature and society--United States--History; Financial crises--United States--History. Relation between fiction and financial modernity. How American novelists and their readers imagined market crashes and financial panics.


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