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Corporate Culture

The corporation an immortal collective bound to act for the common good was developed in the seventeenth century, but comparatively little attention has been paid to its literary ramifications. This work combines corporate history with literary analysis to demonstrate how corporations, and the literature they engendered, shaped ideas of the public sphere, trust, the morality of trade and exchange, national identity and salvation.

Drawing on a wide range of genres including corporate publications, letters and minute books; dramatic works; epic poetry and sermons this study shows how widely corporate rhetoric spread, and how embedded it was in the early modern social imagination.

Liam D. Haydon is a postdoctoral fellow in the Centre for the Political Economies of International Commerce at the University of Kent.

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Corporate Culture

National and Transnational Corporations in Seventeenth-Century Literature

Liam D. Haydon

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Corporate Culture

National and Transnational Corporations in Seventeenth-Century Literature

Liam D. Haydon

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Names: Haydon, Liam D., author.

Title: Corporate culture : national and transnational corporations in seventeenth century literature / by Liam D. Haydon.

Description: 1st Edition. | New York : Routledge, [2018] | Series: Routledge studies in renaissance and early modern worlds of knowledge ; 4 | Includes bibliographical references and index. |

Identifiers: LCCN 2018021263 (print) | LCCN 2018021813 (ebook) | ISBN 9781315531052 () | ISBN 9781138693241

Subjects: LCSH: Corporate cultureHistory17th century. | CommerceSocial aspectsHistory17th century. | Foreign exchangeHistory17th century.

Classification: LCC HD58.7 (ebook) | LCC HD58.7. H4169 2018 (print) | DDC 338.709/032dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018021263

ISBN: 978-1-138-69324-1 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-53105-2 (ebk)

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This research was carried out as part of the Leverhulme-funded project Global Determinants of the English Constitution, and I gratefully acknowledge their support. Parts of the initial research for the book was done in my fellowship at the Brotherton Library in Leeds, and although this wasnt quite the expected outcome of that grant, it put me on the right path, for which I am thankful.

It has been a pleasure to develop this work as part of a research team, and I owe thanks to the Principal Investigator of my project, Will Pettigrew, as well as fellow travellers Aske Brock, Misha Ewan, Peter Good, Emily Mann, Edmond Smith, Haig Smith, Tristan Stein and David Veevers. Although they were not all present for all of the book, everyone I have worked with has read some of it, and I am enormously grateful for their time, the thoroughness of their reading and their helpful suggestions. In particular, Id like to thank Aske and Edmond for their generosity in sharing archival finds; some of those made it in to the book, others did an excellent job of cheering me up during the writing. My colleagues at Kent, in particular my fellow early modernists Amy Blakeway and Stuart Palmer, provided encouragement, plenty of good cheer, and coffee.

This book is not my thesis, but I nonetheless owe thanks to my supervisor, Jerome de Groot, who has continued to support my work, as have, in various and generous ways, Hilary Hinds, Liz Oakley-Brown, Jennifer Richards and Rachel Willie.

Additional thanks are due to Joe Sterrett and Julia Lupton, organisers and hosts of the Trust and Risk workshop at the University of California, Irvine. This was an especially stimulating conference as I finished the book, and I thank the participants for their perceptive questions and their encouraging response; in particular, Id like to thank Alison Findlay for her support and company in California.

The staff of the British Library, the Brotherton at Leeds, the Goldsmiths archive, Nottinghamshire Record Office, the TNA, the LMA and the Huntington were all enormously helpful in their own ways, whether pointing me to useful material, answering queries or simply making archive visits more pleasurable.

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