'Though it is but a promise': Business probity in Arnold Bennett's Anna of the Five Towns

Andrew Popp

Business History, 2006, vol. 48, issue 3, 332-353

Abstract: Noting the increasing interest amongst business historians in the socio-cultural dimensions of business, this article presents a reading of Arnold Bennett's early twentieth-century novel Anna of the Five Towns. The purpose of the article is both to explore the evidential value of cultural representations, such as the novel, in relation to issues currently to the fore in business history, such as trust, and also to act as a means through which to examine some of the biases and assumptions present in the literature. Thus the article speaks also to issues of historiography.

Keywords: Cultural Representations and Business; Trust; Arnold Bennett (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1080/00076790600791771

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