Tradefull Merchants

The Portrayal of the Capitalist in Literature
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-041-15177-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 529 g

Reihe: Routledge Library Editions: Economics and Society

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.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Adult education, General, Postgraduate, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

McVeagh, John

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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