Fictions of Business: Insights on Management from Great Literature
- Author / Editor
- Brawer, Robert A.
Fictions of Business: Insights on Management from Great Literature
- Published
- New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1998.
- Physical Description
- viii, 248 pp.
- Description
- Chapter two, "Selling on a Grand Scale, Playing to an Image-Conscious Society" (pp. 35-59), includes discussion of the Merchant as a "self-made man" who relies on his image of success. Assesses the GP description and compares the character to Horatio Alger's Ragged Dick, Melmotte from Anthony Trollope's novel "The Way We live Now," and modern analogues. Also includes comments on commerce and profit-seeking in CT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Merchant and His Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations