Culture, Capital and Representation

MARIAN AGUIAR Carnegie Mellon, USAROBERT BALFOUR Registrar, St Augustine College, Catholic University of South Africa, South AfricaGUILLAUME EVRARD Tutor in Art History, University of Edinburgh, UKCHRIS FAUSKE Associate Professor of Communications, Salem State College, USAGYORGY FOGARASI Associate Professor of Comparative Literature University of Szeged, HungaryHUGH GOODACRE Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of Westminster, UKLEIGH CLAIRE LA BERGE Collegiate Assistant Professor of Humanities, University of Chicago, USARUTH LIVESEY Reader in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Thought, Royal Holloway, University of London, UKELTON MCGOUN William H. Dunkak Professor of Finance, Bucknell University, USABEN ROBERTS Lecturer in Media Studies, University of Bradford, UKREKHA ROSAH Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Wake Forest University, USA

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Capital, Culture and Representation; R.Balfour Colonialism, Displacement and Cannibalism in Early Modern Economic Thought; H.Goodacre Accounting Capital, Race, and Benjamin Franklin's 'Pecuniary Habits' of Mind in The Autobiography; R.Rosha A System Illusory and Immoral: Jonathan Swift and the Emergence of the Modern Economic Polity ; C.J.Fauske Payments of Attention: Epitaphic Cash Flow in Gray and Wordsworth ; G.Fogarasi Money, Manhood and Suffrage in Our Mutual Friend; R.Livesey Feverish Speculation: The Railway Across the Isthmus of Panama ; M.Aguiar Reading Finance Capital; L.C.La Berge The Gold Standard and Literature: Money and Language in the Work of Jean-Joseph Goux ; B.Roberts Producing and Consuming Agricultural Capital: The Aesthetics and Cultural Politics of Grain Elevators at the 1937 Paris International Exposition ; G.Evrard Finance and Film: Wall Street Myth and Mythopoeia ; E.G.McGoun Re-presenting Capital in Culture: The Necessary Persistence of Memory in a New Century ; R.Balfour Select Bibliography Index