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245 10 a| Literature and capitalh| [electronic resource] /c| Thomas Docherty.;

260 a| London ;a| New York :b| Bloomsbury Academic/Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,c| 2018.;

300 a| 268 pages ;c| 22 cm;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

505 0 a| 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.;

506 a| Available only to authorized users.;

520 a| "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" --c| Provided by publisher.;

538 a| Mode of access: World Wide Web;

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650 0 a| Privatization.=| ^A224642;

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Literature and capital / Thomas Docherty.

Author/creator	Docherty, Thomas, 1955-
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic/Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018.
Description	268 pages ; 22 cm
Supplemental Content	Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost
Subjects	Economics and literature. Capitalism and literature. Culture--Economic aspects. Politics and literature. Education--Social aspects. Values in literature. Privatization. Literature and society.

Contents	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.
Abstract	"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" -- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2018002199
ISBN	9781350064645 (hardcover)
ISBN	9781350064638 (softcover)

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