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Literature and capital / Thomas Docherty.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Docherty, Thomas, 1955- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Capitalism and literature.
- Culture--Economic aspects.
- Culture.
- Economics and literature.
- Education--Social aspects.
- Education.
- Literature and society.
- Politics and literature.
- Privatization.
- Values in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (281 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic/ Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2019.
- Summary:
- "What is the value of literature? In this important new work, Thomas Docherty charts a new economic history of literary culture and its institutions in the modern age. From the literary patronage of the early modern period, through the colonial exploitation of the 18th and 19th centuries to the institutionalisation of "literature" in the neoliberal university of the 21st century, Literature and Capital explores the changing ways in which literary culture has both resisted and become complicit with exploitative economic notions of value. Drawing on the work of economic and political thinkers such as Thomas Piketty, Naomi Klein, Edward Said and Raymond Williams, the book includes readings of work by a wide range of canonical authors from Shakespeare, Donne and Swift to Tolstoy, Woolf and Ishiguro"--Bloomsbury Publishing.
- Contents:
- Preface
- Part 1: Land and Letters. 1. Capital and the Embrace of Letters ; 2. On the Credibility of Writing: Material Promise ; 3. The Career of English
- Part 2: Culture and Capital ; 4. Governing the Tongue ; 5. Inequality, Management and the Hatred of Literature ; 6. Cultural Capital and the Shameful University
- Part 3: Institutional and Human Capital ; 7. The Privatization of All Interests ; 8. Radical Geography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 9781350064652
- 1350064653
- 9781350064676
- 135006467X
- 9781350064669
- 1350064661
- OCLC:
- 1057398547
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