Culture, Capital and Representation

1. Introduction: Culture, Capital and Representation
Robert J. Balfour

2. Colonialism, Displacement and Cannibalism in Early Modern Economic Thought
Hugh Goodacre

3. Accounting Capital, Race and Benjamin Franklin’s ‘Pecuniary Habits’ of Mind in The Autobiography
Rekha Rosha

4. A System Illusory and Immoral: Jonathan Swift and the Emergence of the Modern Economic Polity
Christopher J. Fauske

5. Payments of Attention: Epitaphic Cash Flow in Gray and Wordsworth
György Fogarasi

6. Money, Manhood and Suffrage in Our Mutual Friend
Ruth Livesey

7. Feverish Speculation: the Railway Across the Isthmus of Panama
Marian Aguiar

8. Reading Finance Capital
Leigh Claire Berge

9. The Gold Standard and Literature: Money and Language in the Work of Jean-Joseph Goux
Ben Roberts

10. Producing and Consuming Agricultural Capital: the Aesthetics and Cultural Politics of Grain Elevators at the 1937 Paris International Exposition
Guillaume Evrard

11. Finance and Film: Wall Street Myth and Mythopoeia
Elton G. McGoun

12. Conclusion: Re-presenting Capital in Culture: the Necessary Persistence of Memory in a New Century
Robert J. Balfour

Keywords: Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Twentieth-Century Literature, Sociology, general, British and Irish Literature, North American Literature