A Proposal to Study on the Businessman in American Novels at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

• 발행기관: 한국외국어대학교 영미연구소
• 저자명: Lee Kwangjin
• 간행물 정보: 『영미연구』제27집, 191~213쪽, 전체 23쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2012.12.31

영문 초록

This paper aims at evoking interest in business novels among literary scholars. American industrialization which began in the early nineteenth century gave rise to big business and American businessman in the United States. Even with the much increased influence and visibility of American businessman in American society, he was not prominent in fiction until William Dean Howells’s The Rise of Silas Lapham (1884) after which the businessman figure became more visible in American fictions. However, literary scholars paid little attention to the businessman figure, and it was economists and economic historians that took interest in it. Though there were some variations, their main focus was mainly on whether novelists had positive or negative perspective on businessman. The research framework of dichatomy led scholars to view characters in fictions as one dimensional being: bad person or good person. In addition, the researchers neither had proper defintion of “businessman,” nor effective mothodology that would enable them to analyze businessman figure properly. This paper suggests—though not perfect in any sense—a useful definition of the term “businessman” and theories from Organizational Behavior, a branch of Management, particularly motivation theories and leadership theories.

목차

I. Introduction

II. The Rise of Business in American Society

III. A Brief Overview of the Research on the Businessman in the American Novel

IV. Critical Problems and Suggested Solutions

V. Conclusion

WORKS CITED

Abstract

키워드

비즈니스맨 비즈니스 소설 미국사실주의소설 미국자연주의소설 조직행동론 businessman business novel American Realism novel American Naturalism novel Organization Behavior