Literature and Capital
1st Edition
Published on 6. September 2018
280 pages
978-1-350-06466-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
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ISBN-13
978-1-350-06466-9 (9781350064669)
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Thomas Docherty
Literature and Capital
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09/2018
Bloomsbury Academic
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Person
Thomas Docherty is Professor of English at the University of Warwick, UK. He has published on most areas of English and comparative literature from the Renaissance to the present day. His previous books include After Theory (1996), The English Question (2008) and For the University (Bloomsbury, 2011).
Content
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
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
