TY  - BOOK
AU  - Docherty,Thomas
TI  - Literature and capital
SN  - 9781350064652
AV  - PN51.D63 L58 2018
U1  - 809/.93358 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - London, UK, New York, NY, USA
PB  - Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
KW  - Economics and literature
KW  - Capitalism and literature
KW  - Culture
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Politics and literature
KW  - Education
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Values in literature
KW  - Privatization
KW  - Literature and society
KW  - Society in literature
KW  - Économie politique et littérature
KW  - Capitalisme et littérature
KW  - Politique et littérature
KW  - Privatisation
KW  - Littérature et société
KW  - Literary theory
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Literary studies: general
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
KW  - Literary
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: Literal Capital -- Part One. Land and Letters. Chapter 1: Capital and the Embrace of Letters; Chapter 2: On the Credibility of Writing: Material Promises; Chapter 3: The Career of English -- Part Two. Culture and Capital. Chapter 4: Governing the Tongue; Chapter 5: Inequality, Management and the Hatred of Literature; Chapter 6: Cultural Capital and the Shameful University -- Part Three. Institutional and Human Capital; Chapter 7: The Privatization of all Interests; Chapter 8: Radical Geography
N2  - "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"--
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