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The corporate forms of antebellum US literature Peter Jaros
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jaroš, Peter, author.
- Series:
- Law and literature (Oxford)
- Law and literature
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- American fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Law and literature--United States--History--19th century.
- Law and literature.
- Corporations in literature--History--19th century.
- Corporations in literature.
- American fiction--History and criticism.
- American literature--History and criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Other Title:
- Corporate forms of antebellum United States literature
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford University Press, 2026.
- Oxford New York, NY Oxford University Press [2026]
- Summary:
- Through close examination of legal and literary texts, 'The Corporate Forms of Antebellum US Literature' tells the story of the corporation in antebellum US law, literature, and culture. It unfolds a rich and varied corporate imaginary that both illuminates the prehistory of today's corporations and captures forgotten and unrealized conceptions of personhood, politics, and collectivity
- Contents:
- Cover
- The Corporate Forms of Antebellum US Literature
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Introduction
- Incorporate Things
- The Corporate Form in the Antebellum United States
- From Corporation Theory to Corporate Form
- Corporate Bodies and Souls
- Natural and Artificial Persons
- Corporate Tropes
- Chapter Summaries
- 1: A Double Life Personifying the Corporation from Dartmouth College to Poe
- Corporations and Personhood
- Dartmouth College : Theorizing the Corporation
- When Banks Die
- "The Errors in Grammar Are Very Abundant"
- Visualizing the Bank
- Incorporate Silence
- 2: The Corporation and the Encyclopedia Theorizing and Practicing Assemblage in the Age of Association
- The Great Corporation
- The Age of Association
- Assembling General Knowledge
- Student Societies and Shadow States
- From Corporation to State
- 3: The Faculties of Law Constituting Persons in Robert Montgomery Bird's Sheppard Lee
- Faculties of a Most Marvelous Nature
- No Longer of the Singular Number
- Converted by Scientific Processes
- The Name and Most of the Privileges of Freemen
- "Ruined Accordg. to Law"
- 4: Irving's Astoria and the Forms of Enterprise
- Romancing Enterprise
- Commercial Empire and Corporate Sovereignty
- Excursivity
- Savage Corporations
- Conclusion: Corporate Authorship
- 5: A Company of Socialists The Corporate Imaginary in Associationist Print
- False and True Association
- Media and Millennialism
- Reorientation, Reorganization, and Romance
- Associationist Aesthetics
- Constitutional Poetics
- An Available Foothold
- 6: Assembled Companies The Corporate Forms of The Confidence-Man
- The Age of Joint-Stock Companies
- Humanity, Incorporated
- Shareholders
- Objects of Charity/Objects of Sovereignty
- Quickening Spirits
- River(boat) Corporations
- Bibliography
- Archives
- Periodicals
- Cases
- Other Sources
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 25, 2026)
- Other Format:
- Print version :
- ISBN:
- 9780198996491
- 0198996497
- 9780198996521
- 0198996527
- 9780198996507
- 0198996500
- OCLC:
- 1583402789
- Publisher Number:
- CIPO000374041
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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