The corporation in the nineteenth-century American imagination / Stefanie Mueller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mueller, Stefanie, author.

Series:

Edinburgh critical studies in law, literature and the humanities.

Edinburgh critical studies in law, literature and the humanities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Corporations in literature.

American literature--19th century--History and criticism.

American literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (211 pages) : illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2023.

Summary:

This resource examines the way the corporation - a legal concept of enduring and timely importance in the Anglo-American legal tradition - was imagined in the 19th century historical imagination.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Many and the One: Corporate Bodies and the Body Politic in US Law and Culture

1 Narrating Monopoly and Empire: Austin, Irving, and the Charles River Bridge Case

2 The Soulless Corporation: Cooper and the Decline of the Republic

3 Satanic Corporate Agents in the Marketplace: Hawthorne, Melville, De Forest, and the Uses of Allegory

4 Incorporating the Nation: Ruiz de Burton and “Quasi Public” Corporations

5 The End of Individualism: Tarbell, Norris, and the Power of Combinations

Conclusion: Frankenstein in a Gray Flannel Suit

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 9, 2023).

ISBN:

1-3995-0503-3

1-3995-0502-5

OCLC:

1352974370