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"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...

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Main Author: Docherty, Thomas
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.
Subjects:
Economics and literature.
Capitalism and literature.
Culture > Economic aspects.
Politics and literature.
Education > Social aspects.
Values in literature.
Privatization.
Literature and society.
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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. 
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