Merchants, barons, sellers and suits : the changing images of the businessman through literature / edited by Christa Mahalik.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mahalik, Christa.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Businessmen in literature.

Business in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (355 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Merchants, Barons, Sellers and Suits: The Changing Images of the Businessman through Literature originally began as a conversation about a hybrid course at Quinnipiac University. Its purpose was to take an online English course for non-traditional business majors and create a theme that would be relevant to the business world. Being given the task to create this course from the ground up was exciting and intriguing. There turned out to be a lot more material that could be used for this theme ...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; A GENTLEMAN'S BUSINESS; CATCHING THE ELUSIVE CONSUMER; THE SOI-DISANT HERO'S SUICIDE; THE CONSUMED CONSUMER; SHYLOCK AS THE AMERICAN CAPITALIST; REVISING REPUTATIONS; FROM OPTIMISM TO ENNUI; 'BUT HE AINT NEVER BIN SEEN!'; STOCK CHARACTERS; THE WALL STREET BUSINESSMAN GOES METROSEXUAL; THE WORK OF LITERATURE IN THE AGE OF THE OFFICE; DENMARK INC; SURVIVING THE ECONOMY; THE LIMITS OF POPULAR REPRESENTATION; THE DADDY ANTIDOTE; CONTRIBUTORS

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-14149-3

1-4438-2462-3

9786613141491

OCLC:

827209198