The Corporation in the Nineteenth-Century American Imagination

The first study of the representation of corporations in US law, literature, and culture Covers key topics in company law including the emergence of corporate personhood, the regulation of monopolies, the piercing of the corporate veil, agent-principal relationships and examines their literary and cultural manifestationsPresents interdisciplinary readings of legal, literary and visual texts, including legal treatises, caricatures, novels, and magazine publicationsDraws on literary texts includin