Stefanie Mueller
The Corporation in the Nineteenth-Century American Imagination
The Corporation in the Nineteenth-Century American Imagination
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This book explores the representation of corporations in US law, literature, and culture in the 19th century. It examines how literary and cultural representations of the corporation helped shift how it was envisioned from a public tool to an instrument of private enterprise. It draws on interdisciplinary readings of legal, literary, and visual texts and cases, including Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge (1837), Munn v. The State of Illinois (1877), and Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad (1886).
Format: Hardback
Length: 224 pages
Publication date: 31 December 2022
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
The first comprehensive study of the representation of corporations in US law, literature, and culture delves into crucial topics in company law, including the emergence of corporate personhood, the regulation of monopolies, the piercing of the corporate veil, agent-principal relationships, and their literary and cultural manifestations. This interdisciplinary exploration presents interdisciplinary readings of legal, literary, and visual texts, encompassing legal treatises, caricatures, novels, and magazine publications. By drawing on literary works such as Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton's The Squatter and the Don, James Fenimore Cooper's The Bravo, Frank Norris's The Octopus, and Charles W. Chesnutt's The Partners, the book sheds light on the historical imagination of the corporation in nineteenth-century America. Stefanie Mueller explores how literary and cultural representations shaped the perception of the corporation, transitioning it from a public tool meant to serve the common good to an instrument of private enterprise. Through narrative and metaphor, artists, writers, lawyers, and economists portrayed this transformation, highlighting the corporation's public origins and its fundamentally collective nature, which extended beyond previous scholarly interpretations. This book offers a fresh perspective on the historical development of the corporation and its enduring impact on US law, literature, and culture.
Weight: 486g
Dimension: 241 x 162 x 19 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781399505000
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