{"product_id":"literature-incorporated-the-cultural-unconscious-of-the-business-corporation-16501850-9780226291123","title":"Literature Incorporated  The Cultural Unconscious","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLong before Citizens United 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.  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","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49399982293335,"sku":"9780226291123","price":37.05,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226291123.jpg?v=1730469342","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/literature-incorporated-the-cultural-unconscious-of-the-business-corporation-16501850-9780226291123","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}