| COURSE GUIDE FOR ENGL 3310, AMERICAN BUSINESS CULTURE IN NOVELS AND FILMS Course Topics
The History of the Business Novel in America
Business History and Economic Development. Encompasses (a) the evolution of American attitudes toward business during the past 150 years, and (b) the history of corporations and economic development in America from the Gilded Age to the 1980s.
The History of American Film in the Twentieth Century
Criticism and Interpretation of the American Novel
Criticism and Interpretation of American Drama
Criticism and Interpretation of American Film
Study Group Presentation Topics
THE HISTORY OF THE BUSINESS NOVEL IN AMERICA
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Business ethics in literature
Business in literature
Businessmen in literature
Economics in literature
Books in the Physical Collection
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Brawer Robert A. Fictions of business: Insights on management from great literature.
North Atlanta, 809.39355 B73f
Russell, Norman. The novelist and Mammon: Literary responses to the world of commerce in the nineteenth century.
Rome, 823.809 R91n
Spindler, Michael. American literature and social change: William Dean Howells to Arthur Miller.
Rome, 810.9355 Sp4a
Watts, Emily Stipes. The businessman in American literature.
Rome, 810.9352 W34b
Williams, Oliver F., ed. The moral imagination: How literature and films can stimulate ethical reflection in the business world.
Rome, North Atlanta, 174.4 M79
Journal Articles
Search under the subject term "Money in literature" in Wilson Humanities Full Text*.
BUSINESS HISTORY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
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Business -- History
Capitalism -- History
Commerce -- History
Economic history
Books in the Physical Collection
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Allen, Larry. The ABC-CLIO world history companion to capitalism.
Lawrenceville, North Atlanta, R 330.122 Al5a
Beard, Miriam. A history of business (1963).
Rome 650.9 B38h v. 1 & 2
Boyce, Gordon and Simon Ville. The development of modern business.
Rome, North Atlanta, 338.709 B69d
Cameron, Rondo. A concise economic history of the world: From Paleolithic times to the present.
North Atlanta, 330.9 C14c
Castro, Barry, ed. Business and society: A reader in the history, sociology, and ethics of business.
North Atlanta, 658.408 B96
Dowd, Douglas. Capitalism and its economics: A critical history.
Rome, North Atlanta, 330.122 D75c
McCraw, Thomas K., ed. Creating modern capitalism: How entrepreneurs, companies, and countries triumphed in three industrial revolutions.
North Atlanta, 338.09 C86
Micklethwait, John and Adrian Wooldridge. The company: A short history of a revolutionary idea.
Rome, North Atlanta, 338.7409 M58c
Electronic Book
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Dowd, Douglas. Capitalism and its economics: A critical history.
Journal Articles
Search under the subject terms "Big business" and "History" simultaneously using the advanced search feature in ABI/Inform Complete*.
Search under the subject terms "Business community" and "History" simultaneously using the advanced search feature in Research Library*.
Search for various topics in Business Source Premier* and limit your search to the publication, Business History Review.
Search under the subject terms "Business History," "Business United States History," or "United States Economic history" in Wilson OmniFile Full Text Mega Edition*.
THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN FILM IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
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Motion pictures
Motion pictures and history
Motion pictures-History
Motion pictures -- United States -- History
Books in the Physical Collection
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Allen, Robert C. and Douglas Gomery. Film history: Theory and practice.
Rome, 791.4309 Al5f
Bergman, Andrew. We're in the money: Depression America and its films.
Rome, 791.430973 B45w
Dowdy, Andrew. The films of the fifties: The American state of mind.
Rome, 791.430973 D75f
Elsaesser, Thomas, ed., with Adam Barker. Early cinema: Space, frame, narrative.
Rome, 791.4309 Ea7
Jones, Ken D. and Arthur F. McClure. Hollywood at war, the American motion picture and World War II.
Rome, 791.437 J71h
Monaco, Paul. Ribbons in time: Movies and society since 1945.
Rome, 302.2343 M74r
O'Connor, John E. and Martin A. Jackson, eds. American history/American film: Interpreting the Hollywood image.
Rome, 791.430973 Am3
Williams, Oliver F., ed. The moral imagination: How literature and films can stimulate ethical reflection in the business world.
Rome, North Atlanta, 174.4 M79
Electronic Books
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Abel, Richard. The red rooster scare: Making cinema American, 1900-1910.
Brode, Douglas. The films of the eighties.
Browder, Laura. Rousing the nation: Radical culture in Depression America.
Cochran, David. America noir: Underground writers and filmmakers of the postwar era.
Cohan, Steven. Masked men: Masculinity and the movies in the fifties.
Curran, Daniel. Guide to American cinema, 1965-1995.
DeBauche, Leslie Midkiff. Reel patriotism: The movies and World War I.
Hayward, Susan. Cinema studies: The key concepts.
Lawrence, Amy. Echo and Narcissus: Women's voices in classical Hollywood cinema.
Springer, John Parris. Hollywood fictions: The dream factory in American popular literature.
Sterritt, David. Mad to be saved: The Beats, the '50s, and film.
Wood, Robin. Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan-and beyond.
Journal Articles
Search under the subject term "Motion pictures History" in Academic Search Premier*.
Search under the subject term "Motion pictures History" in Wilson Humanities Full Text*.
Of Particular Interest
Marsh, Joss Lutz. "Fitzgerald, Gatsby, and The Last Tycoon: The 'American dream' and the Hollywood dream factory." Literature Film Quarterly 20:1 (1992): 3. In two parts. TOPICsearch*.
Discusses Fitzgerald's treatment of motion pictures in his various novels.
CRITICISM AND INTERPRETATION OF THE AMERICAN NOVEL
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THE GREAT GATSBY (NOVEL)
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Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940. Great Gatsby
Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Bruccoli, Matthew J, ed. New essays on The great Gatsby.
Rome, 813.092 Fitzgerald N42
Lockridge, Ernest H., ed. Twentieth century interpretations of The great Gatsby: A collection of critical essays.
Rome, 813.092 Fitzgerald L81
Long, Robert Emmet. The achieving of The great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920-1925.
Rome, 813.092 Fitzgerald L85a
Piper, Henry Dan, comp. Fitzgerald's The great Gatsby: the novel, the critics, the background.
Rome, 813.092 Fitzgerald P66f
Electronic Books
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Bloom, Harold, ed. F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Bloom, Harold, ed. F. Scott Fitzgerald's The great Gatsby.
Pelzer, Linda C. Student companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Journal Articles
Search under the subject term "Great Gatsby" in MLA International Bibliography*.
Search under the subject term "Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 1896 - 1940" and the key word "Gatsby" in the "ALL-Smart Search" field in Wilson Humanities Full Text*.
Of Particular Interest
Canterbery, E. Ray. "Thorstein Veblen and The great Gatsby." Journal of Economic Issues 33:2 (June 1999): 297. Research Library*.
Connects Fitzgerald's novel to social conditions in the Gilded Age.
Decker, Jeffrey Louis. "Gatsby's pristine dream: The diminishment of the self-made man in the tribal twenties." Novel: A Forum on Fiction 28:1 (Fall 1994): 52. Academic Search Premier*.
King, Douglas H. "Kerouac's On the road." Explicator 59:4 (Summer 2001): 209. Academic Search Premier*.
Links On the road to The great Gatsby.
THE RISE OF SILAS LAPHAM
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Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920
Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 -- Criticism and interpretation
Books in the Physical Collection
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Carrington, George C., Jr. The immense complex drama: The world and art of the Howells novel.
North Atlanta, 813.092 Howells C23i
Cooke, Delmar Gross. William Dean Howells: A critical study.
Rome, 813.092 Howells C77
Eble, Kenneth Eugene, ed. Howells: A century of criticism.
Rome, 818.092 Howells Eb8
Harvey, Alexander. William Dean Howells: A study of the achievement of a literary artist.
Rome, 813.092 Howells H26
Kirk, Clara M., and Rudolf Kirk. William Dean Howells.
Rome, 813.092 Howells K63w
McMurray, William. The literary realism of William Dean Howells.
Rome, 813.092 Howells M22l
Vanderbilt, Kermit. The achievement of William Dean Howells: A reinterpretation.
Rome, 813.092 Howells V28
Wagenknecht, Edward. William Dean Howells: The friendly eye.
Rome, 813.092 Howells W12w
Wegelin, Christof. The American novel: Background readings and criticism.
North Atlanta, Rome, 813.09 W42a
Electronic Books
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Bennett, George N. The realism of William Dean Howells, 1889-1920.
Journal Articles
Search under the subject term "The rise of Silas Lapham" in MLA International Bibliography*.
Search under the title key words "Rise of Silas Lapham" in Literature Online Reference Edition*. (Click on the icon labeled "Criticism" to access the search page.)
Search under the subject term "Howells, William Dean, 1837 - 1920" and the key words "Silas Lapham" in the "ALL-Smart Search" field in Wilson Humanities Full Text*.
THE BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES (NOVEL)
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Book Reviews
Edwards, T. R. "The bonfire of the vanities." New York Review of Books 35:1 (1988): 8-9. Available from the Rome campus.
Gorra, M. "The bonfire of the vanities." Hudson Review 41:2 (1988): 401-408. Available from the Rome campus.
Hitchens, C. "The bonfire of the vanities." TLS-The Times Literary Supplement 4433 (1988): 302. Available from the Rome campus.
Robbins, Lynn A. "Book reviews: The bonfire of the vanities." The Journal of Ethnic Studies 17:2 (Summer 1989):139. Research Library*.
Journal Articles
Fletcher, Don. "The bonfire of the vanities: A critical reading." Social Alternatives 12:1 (April 1993) Academic Search Premier*.
Kennedy, Liam. '''It's the third world down there!': Urban decline and (post)national mythologies in Bonfire of the vanities." Modern Fiction Studies 43:1 (Spring 1997): 93. Available from the Rome campus
Porsdam, Helle. "In the Age of Lawspeak: Tom Wolfe's The bonfire of the vanities and American litigiousness." Journal of American Studies 25:1 (1991):39. Available from the Rome campus.
Wolfe, Tom. "Stalking the billion-footed beast." Harper's Magazine 279:1674 (1989): 45. Available from the Rome campus.
ON THE ROAD
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Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969. On the road
Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969 -- Criticism and interpretation
Book in the Physical Collection
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Hunt, Tim. Kerouac's crooked road: Development of a fiction.
Rome, 813.092 Kerouac H91k
Electronic Books
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Swartz, Omar. The view from On the road: The rhetorical vision of Jack Kerouac.
Journal Articles
Search under the subject term "On the road" in MLA International Bibliography*.
Search under the subject term "Kerouac, Jack 1922 - 1969" and the key words "On the road" in the "ALL-Smart Search" field in Wilson Humanities Full Text*.
Of Particular Interest
King, Douglas H. "Kerouac's On the road." Explicator 59:4 (Summer 2001): 209. Academic Search Premier*.
Links On the road to The great Gatsby.
CRITICISM AND INTERPRETATION OF AMERICAN DRAMA
DEATH OF A SALESMAN
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Miller, Arthur, 1915-
Miller, Arthur, 1915- -- Criticism and interpretation
Miller, Arthur, 1915- -- Death of a salesman
Books in the Physical Collection
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Moss, Leonard. Arthur Miller (1967 ed.).
Rome, 812.092 Miller M85a
Moss, Leonard. Arthur Miller (revised 1980 ed.).
Rome, 812.092 Miller M85a
Weales, Gerald, ed. Arthur Miller: Death of a salesman, text and criticism.
Rome, 812.092 Miller W37a
Electronic Books
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Abbotson, Susan C.W. Student companion to Arthur Miller.
Bloom, Harold, ed. Arthur Miller.
Bloom, Harold, ed. Arthur Miller's Death of a salesman.
Bloom, Harold, ed. Willy Loman.
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
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Williams, Tennessee 1911-1983 -- Criticism and interpretation
Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983. Streetcar named Desire
Books in the Physical Collection
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Bloom, Harold, ed. Tennessee Williams.
Rome, 812.092 Williams T25
Falk, Signi. Tennessee Williams.
North Atlanta, Rome, 812.092 Williams F18
Miller, Jordan Y., ed. Twentieth century interpretations of A streetcar named Desire: A collection of critical essays.
Rome, 812.092 Williams M61s
Electronic Books
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Bloom, Harold, ed. Tennessee Williams.
CRITICISM AND INTERPRETATION OF AMERICAN FILM
THE GREAT GATSBY (MOTION PICTURE)
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Journal Articles
Cunningham, Frank R. "F. Scott Fitzgerald and the problem of film adaptation." Literature-Film Quarterly 28:3 (2000):187. Wilson Humanities Full Text*.
Cutchins, Dennis. "Adaptations in the classroom: Using film to 'read' The great Gatsby." Literature-Film Quarterly 31:4 (2003): 295. TOPICsearch*.
Dixon, Wheeler Winston. "The three film versions of The great Gatsby: A vision deferred." Literature-Film Quarterly 31:4 (2003): 287. TOPICsearch*.
THE MAN IN THE GRAY FLANNEL SUIT
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Journal Article
Jurca, Catherine. "The sanctimonious suburbanite: Sloan Wilson's The man in the gray flannel suit." American Literary History 11:1 (Spring 1999): 82-106. Available from the Rome campus.
THE BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES (MOTION PICTURE)
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Author Interview
Wolfe, Tom. "Bonfire of the vanities: Book into movie." Weekend All Things Considered. National Public Radio. Washington, D.C.: 25 Nov. 1990. Research Library*.
WALL STREET
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Electronic Books
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Boozer, Jack. "Wall Street: The commodification of perception." in Cultural power/cultural literacy: Selected papers from the Fourteenth Annual Florida State University Conference on Literature and Film edited by Bonnie Braendlin.
Brode, Douglas. The films of the eighties.
Journal Articles
Kauffmann, Stanley. "Stanley Kauffmann on films: A hazard of new fortunes." The New Republic 198:1/2 (Jan. 4 & 11, 1988): 24. Academic Search Premier*.
Ouellet, Pierre. "The invisible specter of class." Peace Review 11:2 (June 1999): 283. Academic Search Premier*.
Starkey, Ken. "Eleven characters in search of an ethic, or the spirit of capitalism revisited." Studies in Cultures, Organizations & Societies 5:1 (Mar. 1999): 179. Academic Search Premier*.
Stone, John. "Evil in the early cinema of Oliver Stone: Platoon and Wall Street as modern morality plays." Journal of Popular Film & Television 28:2 (Summer 2000): 80. TOPICsearch*.
THE GILDED AGE
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United States -- Civilization -- 1865 - 1918
United States -- Politics and government -- 1865 - 1900
Books in the Physical Collection
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Boren, Carter E. ... [et al.]. Essays on the Gilded Age.
Rome, 917.035 Es7
Carter, Paul A. The spiritual crisis of the Gilded Age.
Rome, 209.73 C24s
Dobson, John M. Politics in the Gilded Age: A new perspective on reform.
Rome, 320.973 D65p
Ginger, Ray. Age of excess: The United States from 1877 to 1914.
Rome, 973.8 G43a
Gould, Lewis L. "Gilded Age," p. 308 - 310. In Boyer, Paul S., et al., eds., The Oxford guide to United States history.
North Atlanta, R 973.03 Ox2
Hoogenboom, Ari, and Olive Hoogenboom, eds. The Gilded Age.
Rome, 917.3038 H76
Schlup, Leonard and James G. Ryan. Historical dictionary of the Gilded Age.
North Atlanta, R 973.803 H62
Smith, Henry Nash, comp. Popular culture and industrialism, 1865-1890.
Rome, 973.8 Sm5p
Sproat, John G. The best men: Liberal reformers in the Gilded Age.
Rome, 320.973 Sp8b
Trachtenberg, Alan. The incorporation of America: Culture and society in the Gilded Age.
Rome, 973.8 T67i
Journal Articles
Search simultaneously under both the subject terms United States/History/1865-1898 and United States/Economic history in Wilson OmniFile Full-Text Mega Edition*.
Canterbery, E Ray. "Thorstein Veblen and The great Gatsby." Journal of Economic Issues 33:2 (June 1999): 297. Research Library GALILEO Edition*.
Connects Fitzgerald's novel to social conditions in the Gilded Age.
THE ROARING TWENTIES
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Nineteen-twenties;
United States -- Civilization -- 1918 - 1945;
United States -- History -- 1919 - 1933.
Books in the Physical Collection
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Baritz, Loren, comp. The culture of the twenties.
Rome, 917.30391 B23c
Carter, Paul A. Another part of the twenties.
Rome, 973.91 C24a
Cowley, Malcolm and Robert Cowley. Fitzgerald and the jazz age.
Rome, 973.91 C83f
Dumenil, Lynn. "The twenties," p. 788 - 789. In Boyer, Paul S., et al., eds., The Oxford guide to United States history.
North Atlanta, R 973.03 Ox2
Fass, Paula S. The damned and the beautiful: American youth in the 1920's.
Rome, 305.230973 F26d
Hoffman, Frederick John. The twenties: American writing in the postwar decade.
Rome, 810.9 H67t
McCoy, Donald R. Coming of age: The United States during the 1920's and 1930's.
Rome, 973.9 M13c
Perrett, Geoffrey. America in the twenties: A history.
Rome, 973.91 P42a
Stevenson, Elizabeth. Babbitts and bohemians: From the Great War to the Great Depression.
Rome, 973.91 St4b
Electronic Books
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Allen, Frederick Lewis. Only yesterday: An informal history of the 1920's.
Kyvig, David E. Daily life in the United States, 1920-1939: Decades of promise and pain.
Journal Article
Canterbery, E Ray. "Thorstein Veblen and The great Gatsby." Journal of Economic Issues 33:2 (June 1999): 297. Research Library*.
Connects Fitzgerald's novel to social conditions in the Gilded Age.
THE TRANQUILIZED FIFTIES
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Beat generation
United States-Civilization-1945-
United States-History-1945-
United States-Social conditions-1945-
Books in the Physical Collection
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Branch, Taylor. Parting the waters: America in the King years, 1954-1963.
Rome, 305.896073 B73p
Dowdy, Andrew. The films of the fifties: The American state of mind.
Rome, 791.430973 D75f
French, Warren, ed. The fifties: Fiction, poetry, drama.
Rome, 809 F88f
George-Warren, Holly, ed. The Rolling stone book of the Beats: The Beat Generation and American culture.
North Atlanta, 810.9 R65
Miller, William Lee. Piety along the Potomac: Notes on politics and morals in the fifties.
Rome, 973.921 M61p
Romney, Charles. "The fifties," p. 264 - 265. In Boyer, Paul S., et al., eds., The Oxford guide to United States history.
North Atlanta, R 973.03 Ox2
Solotaroff, Theodore, ed. An age of enormity: Life and writing in the forties and fifties.
Rome, 809 R73a
Tytell, John. Paradise outlaws: Remembering the beats.
North Atlanta, 810.9 T99p
Zinn, Howard. Postwar America: 1945-1971.
Rome, 973.92 Zi6p
Electronic Books
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Cohan, Steven. Masked men: Masculinity and the movies in the fifties.
Ellwood, Robert S. The fifties spiritual marketplace: American religion in a decade of conflict.
Foster, Edward Halsey. Understanding the Beats.
Gee, Helen. Limelight: A Greenwich Village photography gallery and coffeehouse in the fifties: A memoir.
Henriksen, Margot A. Dr. Strangelove's America: Society and culture in the atomic age.
Jamison, Andrew and Ron Eyerman. Seeds of the sixties.
Sterritt, David. Mad to be saved: The Beats, the '50s, and film.
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