Joseph L. Badaracco, Jr. (2006).
Questions of Character: Illuminating the Heart of Leadership
Through Literature. (Boston, MA: Harvard Business School
Press, 221 p.). John Shad Professor of Business Ethics at Harvard
Business School. Leadership; Leadership--Moral and ethical
aspects. Author outlines eight fundamental
challenges that test a leader’s character, proposes exploring them
through literature.
Gordon Bigelow (2003).
Fiction, Famine, and the Rise of
Economics in Victorian Britain and Ireland. (New York, NY:
Cambridge University Press, 229 p.). Assistant Professor of
English (Rhodes College). Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865
--Knowledge--Economics; Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
--Knowledge--Economics; Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Bleak House;
English fiction--19th century--History and criticism; Economics in
literature; Economics--Great Britain--History--19th century;
Ireland--History--Famine, 1845-1852--Historiography.
Joseph Bizup (2003).
Manufacturing Culture: Vindications of Early Victorian Industry.
(Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 229 p.). Great
Exhibition (1851 : London, England); Industries--Great
Britain--History--19th century; English literature--19th
century--History and criticism; Industries in literature; Great
Britain--Civilization--19th century; Great
Britain--History--Victoria, 1837-1901.
Francesco Bogliari, Sergio Di Giorgi, Marco Lombardi and Piero
Trupia (2007). Cinema Per Manager. (Milan, IT: EtasLab, 256
p.). 50 high-quality films offer lessons about human behavior;
teach good business practices, management techniques
(problem-solving, teamwork): A tempo pieno; Americani; L’apparenza
inganna; Assassinio sull’Orient Express; Babel; Bianca; The Big
Kahuna; Cacciatore di teste; Confidenze troppo intime; Il deserto
dei tartari; Effetto notte; L’eredità; Eva contro Eva; La febbre;
Fitzcarraldo; Gerry; Good night, and good luck; Il grande capo;
Grazie signora Thatcher; La guerra dei Roses; Hotel paura; Le
invasioni barbariche; Jarhead; Lolita; Lost in La Mancha; The
Manchurian candidate; Matchpoint; Le mele di Adamo; Miracolo a
Milano; La mosca; Neverland; L’orchestra di piazza Vittorio;
Paris, Texas; Le passeggiate al campo di Marte; Pensavo fosse
amore e invece…; Primavera, estate, autunno, inverno… e ancora
primavera; Profondo rosso; Radio America; Le ricamatrici; Sentieri
selvaggi; Shining; Il sole negli occhi; La spettatrice; La stella
che non c’è; The terminal; Time; Tredici variazioni sul tema; Il
Vangelo secondo Matteo; Volver.
Robert A. Brawer (1998).
Fictions of Business: Insights on
Management from Great Literature. (New York, NY: Wiley, 248
p.). Former CEO of a global corporation who has also been an
English literature professor. American literature -- History and
criticism; English literature -- History and criticism;
Businessmen in literature; Management science in literature;
Business ethics in literature; Business in literature.
William Conlogue (2001).
Working the Garden: American Writers and the Industrialization of
Agriculture. (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North
Carolina Press, 230 p.). Assistant Professor of English (Marywood
University). American literature--20th century--History and
criticism; Agriculture in literature; Agriculture--Economic
aspects--United States--History--20th century; Pastoral
literature, American--History and criticism; Industrialization in
literature; Rural conditions in literature; Farm life in
literature; Gardens in literature.
Tim Dolin (1997).
Mistress of the House: Women of Property
in the Victorian Novel. (Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 153 p.).
English fiction--19th century--History and criticism; Domestic
fiction, English--History and criticism; Literature and
society--England--History--19th century; Women and
literature--England--History--19th century; Domestic relations in
literature; Economics in literature; Property in literature; Sex
role in literature; Marriage in literature; Women in literature.
Henry W. Farnham (1978). Shakespeare's Economics.
(Philadelphia, PA: R. West, 187 p. (orig. pub. 1931)).
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Knowledge--Economics; Economics
in literature; England--Economic conditions--16th century.
Lorne Fienberg (1988). A Cuckoo in the Nest of Culture:
Changing Perspectives on the Businessman in the American Novel,
1865-1914. (New York, NY: Garland, 384 p.). American
fiction--19th century--History and criticism; Business in
literature; Businessmen in literature; American fiction--20th
century--History and criticism.
Margot C. Finn (2003).
The Character of Credit: Personal
Debt in English Culture, 1740-1914. (New York, NY: Cambridge
University Press, 362 p.). English prose literature--History and
criticism; Economics and literature--Great Britain--History;
Consumption (Economics)--Great Britain--History; Finance,
Personal--Great Britain--History; Consumption (Economics) in
literature; Credit--Great Britain--History; Debt--Great
Britain--History; Economics in literature; Debt in literature;
Great Britain--Economic conditions.
Charlotte Georgi (1959). The Businessman in the Novel.
(Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Library, 36 p.).
Businessmen in literature--Bibliography; American fiction--20th
century--Bibliography.
George L. Henderson (1999).
California & The Fictions of
Capital. (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 265 p.).
Assistant Professor of Geography and Regional Development
(University of Arizona).
American literature--California--History and criticism; Authors,
American--Homes and haunts--California; Capitalism and
literature--California; Capital--California--History;
California--Historical geography; California--Economic conditions;
California--In literature.
Carl S. Horner (1992).
The Boy Inside the American
Businessman: Corporate Darwinism in Twentieth-Century American
Literature. (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 103 p.).
American literature--20th century--History and criticism;
Businessmen in literature; Business in literature; Boys in
literature; Men in literature. Social Darwinism.
Blair Hoxby (2002).
Mammon's Music: Literature and Economics
in the Age of Milton. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press,
320 p.). Milton, John, 1608-1674 --Knowledge--Economics; Economics
and literature--Great Britain--History--17th century; Economics in
literature; Commerce in literature.
Kathryn Hume (2000).
American Dream, American Nightmare:
Fiction Since 1960. (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.
American fiction--20th century--History and criticism; Failure
(Psychology) in literature; Literature and society--United
States--History--20th century; Psychological fiction,
American--History and criticism; National characteristics,
American, in literature; Loss (Psychology) in literature;
Disappointment in literature; Economics in literature; Success in
literature.
Compiled by Humphrey Jennings (1985).
Pandaemonium: The Coming of the Machine as Seen by Contemporary
Observers, 1660-1886. (New York, NY: Free Press, 376 p.).
English literature; Industries--Literary collections; Machinery in
the workplace--Literary collections; Industrialization--Literary
collections; Social conflict--Literary collections; Social
history--Literary collections; Great Britain--Literary
collections.
David Kaufmann (1995).
The Business of Common Life: Novels
and Classical Economics between Revolution and Reform.
(Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 196 p.). English
fiction--19th century--History and criticism; English
fiction--18th century--History and criticism; Literature and
society--Great Britain--History; Economics in literature; Business
in literature.
Theodore B. Leinwand (1999).
Theatre, Finance, and Society
in Early Modern England. (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University
Press: 199 p. English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan,
1500-1600--History and criticism; Economics in literature;
Literature and society--England--History--16th century; Literature
and society--England--History--17th century; English drama--17th
century--History and criticism; Finance--England--History--16th
century--Sources; Finance--England--History--17th
century--Sources; Finance in literature.
Samuel L. Macey (1983).
Money and the Novel: Mercenary
Motivation in Defoe and His Immediate Successors. (Vancouver,
B.C.: Sono Nis Press, 184 p.). Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731
--Knowledge--Economics; Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761
--Knowledge--Economics; Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754
--Knowledge--Economics; Austen, Jane, 1775-1817
--Knowledge--Economics; English fiction--History and criticism;
Money in literature; Economics in literature;
Economics--England--History--18th century.
Laura Mandell (1999).
Misogynous Economies: The Business of
Literature in Eighteenth-Century Britain. (Lexington, KY:
University of Kentucky Press, 228 p.). English literature--18th
century--History and criticism; Misogyny in literature; Capitalism
and literature--Great Britain--History--18th century; Women and
literature--Great Britain--History--18th century; English
literature--Women authors--History and criticism; Capitalists and
financiers in literature; Economics in literature; Ethics in
literature; Women in literature; Rape in literature.
Michael J. McTague (1979).
The Businessman in Literature:
Dante to Melville. (New York, NY: Philosophical Library, 86
p.). Businessmen in literature.
John McVeagh (1981).
Tradefull Merchants: The Portrayal of
the Capitalist in Literature. (London, UK: Routledge & Kega
Paul, 221 p.). English literature--History and criticism;
Capitalists and financiers in literature; Capitalism and
literature--Great Britain; Businessmen in literature; Commerce in
literature.
Timothy Morton (2000).
The Poetics of Spice: Romantic
Consumerism and the Exotic. (New York, NY: Cambridge
University Press, 282 p.). English literature--History and
criticism; Spice trade in literature; Capitalism and
literature--Great Britain--History; English literature--Asian
influences; Consumption (Economics) in literature;
Romanticism--Great Britain; East and West in literature; Exoticism
in literature; Orient--In literature.
Donald L. Mull (1973).
Henry James's "sublime economy";
Money as Symbolic Center in the Fiction. (Middletown, CT:
Wesleyan University Press, 195 p.). James, Henry, 1843-1916
--Knowledge--Economics; Economics--United States--History--19th
century; Symbolism in literature; Economics in literature; Money
in literature.
Colin Nicholson (1994).
Writing and the Rise of Finance:
Capital Satires of the Early Eighteenth Century. (New York,
NY: Cambridge University Press, 219 p.). English literature--18th
century--History and criticism; Capitalism and literature--Great
Britain--History--18th century; Finance--Great
Britain--History--18th century; Capitalists and financiers in
literature; Satire, English--History and criticism; Economics in
literature; Finance in literature.
Maximillian E. Novak (1976). Economics and the Fiction of
Daniel Defoe. (New York, NY: Russell & Russell, 185 p. (orig.
pub. 1962)). Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 --Knowledge--Economics;
Economics--England--History--18th century; Economics in
literature.
Lynn A. Parks (1996).
Capitalism in Early American
Literature: Texts and Contexts. (New York, NY: Peter Lang, 183
p.). American literature--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--History
and criticism; Capitalism and literature--United
States--History--18th century; Capitalism and literature--United
States--History--17th century; Economics in literature; Wealth in
literature; Work in literature.
Lucie Pfaff (1989).
The American and German Entrepreneur:
Economic and Literary Interplay. (New York, NY: P. Lang, 183
p.). Entrepreneurship -- Government policy -- United States; Small
business -- Government policy -- United States; Entrepreneurship
-- Government policy -- Germany (West); Small business --
Government policy -- Germany (West); national characteristics,
American, in literature; Businessmen in literature.; American
literature; German literature.
Mary Poovey (2008).
Genres of the Credit Economy: Mediating Value in Eighteenth- and
Nineteenth-Century Britain. (Chicago, IL: University of
Chicago Press, 511 p.). Samuel Rudin Professor in the Humanities
and Professor of English (New York University). Finance--Great
Britain--History; Consumer credit--Great Britain--History; Money
in literature; Money--Social aspects--Great Britain; Economics and
literature--Great Britain--History; Literary form--History;
English literature--History and criticism. History of financial
instruments, representations of finance in 18th, 19th Britain;
complex relationships among forms of writing that are not usually
viewed together; mediated for early modern Britons operations of
market system organized around credit, debt.
James Raven (1992).
Judging New Wealth: Popular Publishing
and Responses to Commerce in England, 1750-1800. (New York,
NY: Oxford University Press, 327 p.). Publishers and publishing --
England -- History -- 18th century; English literature -- 18th
century -- History and criticism; Wealth -- England -- Public
opinion -- History -- 18th century; Literature publishing --
England -- History -- 18th century; Popular literature -- England
-- History and criticism; Businessmen in literature; Commerce in
literature; Wealth in literature; England -- Commerce -- Public
opinion -- History -- 18th century; Popular culture -- England --
History -- 18th century.
Janet A. Rich (1987). The Dream of Riches and the Dream of
Art: The Relationship Between Business and the Imagination in the
Life and Major Fiction of Mark Twain. (New York, NY: Garland,
312 p.). Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 --Knowledge--Commerce; Capitalism
and literature--United States--History; Economics in literature;
Commerce in literature; Business in literature; Money in
literature; United States--Commerce--History--19th century.
Norman Russell (1986).
The Novelist and Mammon: Literary
Responses to the World of Commerce in the Nineteenth Century.
(New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 226 p.). English
fiction--19th century--History and criticism; Commerce in
literature; Business in literature; Economics in literature;
Capitalists and financiers in literature; Businessmen in
literature.
Marc Shell (1978).
The Economy of Literature.
(Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 176 p.). Economics
in literature; Money.
--- (1993).
Money, Language, and Thought: Literary and
Philosophic Economies from the Medieval to the Modern Era.
(Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 245 p. (orig. pub.
1982)). Economics in literature; Language and
languages--Philosophy; Money--Philosophy.
Sandra Sherman (1996).
Finance and Fictionality in the Early
Eighteenth Century: Accounting for Defoe. (New York, NY:
Cambridge University Press, 222 p.). Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731
--Knowledge--Economics; Economics--England--History--18th century;
Finance--England--History--18th century; Economics in literature;
Finance in literature; Fiction--Technique.
Gillian Skinner (1999).
Sensibility and Economics in the
Novel, 1740-1800: The Price of a Tear. (New York, NY: St.
Martin's Press, 232 p.). English fiction--18th century--History
and criticism; Sentimentalism in literature; Economics in
literature; Emotions in literature.
William Solomon (2002).
Literature, Amusement, and Technology in the Great Depression.
(New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 271 p.). Assistant
Professor in the Departments of English and American Studies
(Stanford University). American fiction--20th century--History and
criticism; Depressions in literature; Literature and
technology--United States--History--20th century; Popular
culture--United States--History--20th century;
Depressions--1929--United States; Popular culture in literature;
Amusements in literature; Technology in literature; Carnival in
literature; Play in literature.
Laura Caroline Stevenson (1984).
Praise and Paradox: Merchants and Craftsmen in Elizabethan
Popular Literature. (New York, NY: Cambridge University
Press, 252 p.). Popular literature -- Great Britain -- History and
criticism; English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 --
History and criticism; English literature -- Early modern,
1500-1700 -- Social aspects; Businessmen in literature; Artisans
in literature; Merchants -- Great Britain; Artisans -- Great
Britain.
Ed. Mike Tronnes (1998).
Closers: Great American Writers on
the Art of Selling. (New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 348
p.). Sales personnel -- Literary collections; Selling -- Literary
collections; American literature -- 20th century.
Frederick Turner (1999).
Shakespeare's Twenty-First Century
Economics: The Morality of Love and Money. (New York, NY:
Oxford University Press, 223 p.). Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
--Knowledge--Economics; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Ethics;
Economics and literature--England--History--16th century;
Economics and literature--England--History--17th century; Didactic
drama, English--History and criticism; Economics--Moral and
ethical aspects; Economics in literature; Ethics in literature;
Money in literature.
Cedric Watts (1990). Literature and Money: Financial Myth
and Literary Truth. (New York, NY: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 217
p.). English literature--History and criticism; Capitalists and
financiers in literature; Economics in literature; Money in
literature; Myth in literature.
Emily S. Watts (1982).
The Businessman in American
Literature. (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 183 p.).
American literature--History and criticism; Businessmen in
literature; Capitalism in literature.
Barbara Weiss (1986).
The Hell of the English: Bankruptcy
and the Victorian Novel. (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University
Press, 208 p.). English fiction--19th century--History and
criticism; Bankruptcy in literature; Didactic fiction,
English--History and criticism; Capitalists and financiers in
literature; Middle class in literature; Economics in literature;
Ethics in literature; Debt in literature.
Eric Wertheimer (2006).
Underwriting: The Poetics of Insurance in America, 1722-1872.
(Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 187 p.). Associate
Professor of American Literature (Arizona State University).
American literature--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--History and
criticism; Insurance and literature--United States--History--18th
century; Insurance and literature--United States--History--19th
century; American literature--Revolutionary period,
1775-1783--History and criticism; American literature--19th
century--History and criticism; Value in literature; Values in
literature. Cultural history of insurance in
early America; insurance, as textual procedure, requires
signatures to conserve property, is a writing business.
Wayne W. Westbrook (1980).
Wall Street in the American Novel.
(New York, NY: New York University Press, 213 p.). American
fiction--History and criticism; Wall Street in literature; Finance
in literature.
Scott Wilson (1995).
Cultural Materialism: Theory and
Practice. (Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 278 p.). Shakespeare,
William, 1564-1616 --Political and social views; Wilde, Oscar,
1854-1900 --Political and social views; English literature--Early
modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism--Theory, etc.; Politics
and literature--Great Britain--History--16th century; Literature
and anthropology--Great Britain; Social change in literature;
Materialism in literature; Economics in literature; Marxist
criticism; Historicism.
David A. Zimmerman (2006).
Panic!: Markets, Crises, and Crowds in American Fiction.
(Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 312 p.).
Assistant Professor of English (University of Wisconsin, Madison).
American fiction--19th century--History and criticism; Financial
crises in literature; American fiction--20th century--History and
criticism; Depressions in literature; Popular culture--United
States--History; Literature and society--United States--History;
Financial crises--United States--History. Relation between fiction
and financial modernity. How American
novelists and their readers imagined market crashes and financial
panics.