Though it is but a promise’

Business probity in Arnold Bennett's Anna of the Five Towns

Bibliographic Data

ID8420047
AuthorsAndrew Popp (0000-0001-9603-7681, corresponding author)
Year2006
Volume48
Issue3
Pages332-353
Publication date2006-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueBusiness History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0007-6791 • E-ISSN: 1743-7938
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00076790600791771
OpenAlexW2008279884
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited12

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

Business history · Economic history · Historiography · Political science · Reading (process · Relation (database · Sociology · Value (mathematics · American History and Culture · Australian History and Society · Computer Science · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Law

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